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#16 Post by starhawk »

Tried on Akita Linux beta6, does not appear to load plugins of any kind -- flash included!

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problems with flash being recognized

#17 Post by alphamale »

i have qtweb working very well except for flash.

i'm on slacko, qt-all sfs, latest flashplayer is installed, but qtweb is not seeing it. i made a subdirectory called plugins and symlinked libflashplayer.so but it still isn't seeing it.

does it not work with flash 11.x?

where should libflashplayer.so go for qtweb to see it?

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#18 Post by sc0ttman »

You might need some extra libs for Flash to work: http://akita.scottjarvis.com/browserlibs.pet
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#19 Post by joagan »

Get a strange problem, if I disable javascript forums work and when I enable it for sites that need it/or not just load the header?

On lupu 528 - live cd

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#20 Post by ahoppin »

Nice browser, very snappy!

One little oddity, on the preferences / privacy tab, hovering the cursor over the left side tickboxes causes them to become corrupted. This can be avoided by moving mouse very slowly. It might be a qt quirk, or might be caused by my machine being an older and slower one (Athlon XP 2700).

I miss only a couple of Seamonkey features. First, the ability to save passwords for only some sites. With qtweb it seems to be all or nothing. And second, Flashblock - though I have a version of that for Midori, and it might work for Qtweb, haven't tried yet.

Thanks for tipping me off to this!

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#21 Post by ahoppin »

Foo, I found the showstopper for this one. The bookmarks manager is so elementary that it can't edit bookmarks, can't reposition a bookmark beyond the window (no scrolling), and can't even cut and paste bookmarks.

I guess this browser would be OK for someone who saves few or no bookmarks, but my exported bookmarks from Seamonkey are 1.1mb (yeah, I know, a little out of hand).

Pity. Up until I tried bookmarks, Qtweb was (aside from the lack of selective password saving) looking mighty darn good.

Maybe I'll try again in another 2 or 3 versions. Might be a long wait, though, since the current version was released in December 2010. Or maybe I can find an external bookmarks manager.

If I get ambitious, maybe I'll d/l the Qtweb source and try to hack up a better bookmarks manager myself.

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#22 Post by sling-shot »

ahoppin wrote: If I get ambitious, maybe I'll d/l the Qtweb source and try to hack up a better bookmarks manager myself.
Have you tried it? Does it build from source?
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Re: problems with flash being recognized

#23 Post by greengeek »

alphamale wrote:where should libflashplayer.so go for qtweb to see it?
Does anyone with a working flash install have an answer to this question please? Thx

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#24 Post by Semme »

Greengeek- you have any Mozilla browsers installed? Where does the current plugin reside? It's version?

:wink: >> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins is where she's finding my latest *Mozilla based* plugin.

If you've got Chrome alone, that's a possibly incompatible version..

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#25 Post by greengeek »

Thanks Semme - I didnt have any mozilla browsers installed, but I have now put the flashplayer where you suggested and get an interesting result.

1) On my Pulp03 install qtweb now runs flash ok, but only if I change the "user agent" button to mimic Opera. (If I leave it as "qtweb" I just get a black box where the vid should be)

2) On my Wary barebones install qtweb will still not run flash - although at least now it seems to find the flashplayer.so but just displays a black box - even if I change user agent to opera. (The previous "install flash" message is gone though so it's definitely aware it has the flashplayer available)

I will do more testing.

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#26 Post by Semme »

Most times you can track issues, or resolve them, by adjusting the string.

As far as Wary, does Adobes *about* page suggest you grab v10?

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How about a .pet of the latest version, please...

#27 Post by mechmike »

As per this:

http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00319

I've been playing with the latest version - the only hitch I've found so far is with their adblocking. If you turn it on, certain websites won't load.

I wish they used EasyList...

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#28 Post by watchdog »

I have tested the 3.8.4 portable version. With User Agent Firefox it finds the latest 11.2 flashplayer plugin in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. It works with my hardware. Going to:

http://www.linkagogo.com/

I was able to convert mozilla bookmarks in .xbel standard and to import my bookmarks in QtWeb. Pop-ups blocking not always working. Opening a link in a new tab makes it suddenly active: I should prefer to activate the new tab manually. In firefox I use noscript extension: in QtWeb there aren't similar extensions. But QtWeb is very fast and lightweight. A good choice for old hardwares or to build lightweight puppies: then one can install the preferred browser.

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Adblocking and user-agent

#29 Post by session »

mechmike wrote:http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00319

I've been playing with the latest version - the only hitch I've found so far is with their adblocking. If you turn it on, certain websites won't load.

I wish they used EasyList...
I just use sc0ttan's Pup-Advert-Blocker for everything.
Although, stuff like facebook ads need a nice adblocking user script, something QtWeb does not support...

In response to Drongo's post in that blog link, it IS worth fiddling with the user-agent in QtWeb; for example, this site won't load unless the string is set to Internet Explorer (!)
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#30 Post by Jasper »

Hi pemasu, session et al,

Using Qt-Web v 3.8.4, I cannot download the 825 byte "menu.tar.gz"
from here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... aa2#709301

It will download for me using v 3.7.3, but with v 3.8.4 the download window shows the file as zero bytes and an "about:blank" tab opens.

I would be pleased to know if any reader(s) also have this problem, and, if so, if they are able to advise a fix.

My regards

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#31 Post by Ray MK »

Hi jasper

just had the same problem - not sure what the answer is.

very best regards - Ray
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#32 Post by session »

It's odd, because most any other forum attachment saves just fine, but it seems to work if under settings you check "Ask where to save each download"
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#33 Post by L18L »

More than odd!
In my localized Version bytes are "translated" to "Beits".
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#34 Post by Jasper »

Hi again,

Thanks for the prompt responses.

@ session - your fix also works for me - I'm impressed as I would never have thought of trying your solution.

My regards

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#35 Post by Ray MK »

Amazing - likewise, it works - many thanks
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