Notices

Just like promised the last week I spend some time coding a webbrowser for Sailfish which supports landscape and supports tabbing.
I based my work on the tinywebbrowser project by Mike7b4. So thanks for the initial code and inspiration.

The current features of the browser so far:

• Landscape support
• Tabbing support (real without reloading of tabs)
• Bookmark support
• Setting browser user agent
• Setting default font sizes
• Opening up links in new tab (by long press and hold on link)
• Copy links (by long press and hold on link)
• Open rtsp, rtmp and mms links with external viewer (e.g. LLs VideoPlayer)
• Setting DNS Prefetch
• Setting Offline WebApplication Cache
• Manually add bookmark with specific user agent
• Fast scroll to top or bottom of page
• Watch Youtube with internal or external player (e.g. LLs VideoPlayer) with direct link
• Download Youtube videos
• Private Browsing
• Clear Cache, Cookies, History
• ReaderMode (with NightMode)
• Copy text from website
• Search text in website
• Keyboard hotkeys
• Session support
• HTML5 Video Tag detection
• Embeded Youtube detection
• Integrated file manager
• Integrated Download Manager
• Keyboard Hotkeys (for TOHKBD or bluetooth keyboards)
• Set as default browser
• Backup Manager (Import/Export Bookmarks,Cookies,History,Settings)
• Proxy Support
• Fast Tab Switching
• Create Website Launchers
• Cookie Manager

You can find the code here: https://github.com/llelectronics/webcat
RPM here: https://openrepos.net/sites/default/...-1.armv7hl.rpm
Tablet (i486) RPM: https://openrepos.net/sites/default/...0.8-1.i486.rpm

It is recommend to use QtWebkit 5.212 from Version 2.9.7 onwards.
You can currently find RPMs here: https://openrepos.net/content/llelec...ebkit-5212-dev

Update:
Version 3.0.8

• Fix webTitle visible after loading and urlText in focus
• Ytdl: Fix for multiple tabs trying to get youtube stream urls
• Fix youtube stream acquiring
• Multiple presses on the ffwd and rew button in Videoplayer triggers further jump in the video (if done in 1.5 second interval) and shows *
  indicators

Version 3.0.7

• Switch Youtube getting streams to using https (Fixes Youtube video playback)
• Fixed ytQualityChooser not appearing
• Add ytdl support (Download or copy from LLs video player)
• YTDL Support: 360p videos are loaded by default (if a Video is not playing back try the 360p option by long pressing the play button in mediabar)
• YTDL Support: Update ytdl if binary older than 10 days automatically
• Adjust video player component size for new yt mobile site
• Fixed race condition in suggestionView hide on Enter key press

Version 3.0.6

• Fix OpenDialog: Wrong path when switching between folders + hidden files show states
• Redirect urls that start with / to file://
• Fix https entry redirect to http:// error on some longer urls (Closes: #74)
• Hide error popup on LoadStart (Fixes: #75)
• Update User Agent String for youtube to load correct site
• Enable Desktop Scaling as temporary workaround for websites who do not work properly without dpr=1.0 (Press and hold reader mode for 3 seconds)
• Add working internal FM only image viewer based upon the Silica ImageViewer from Gallery
• Add greek translation + update translations

Version 3.0.5

• Fixed url entry + allow entering IP:PORT again
• Fixed about:file not being able to load images in browser
• Fixed fixUrl function to really perform check for file:// and about:
• Made landscape downloadmanager list a bit smaller
• Downloadmanager: Show active running download in docked panel that autohides if no download active
• Downloadmanager: Allow all orientations for status and error Page
• Fixed valid urls without :// in front
• Fixed resolution independent error box
• Downloadmanager: Align current download label horizontal all the time and elide correctly
• OpenDialog/Filemanager: Allow showing hidden files and folders by pressing on the title of the current folder
• Fixed BackupManager not showing progress on restore
• OpenDialog/Filemanager: Fixed remove function for multiple files and folders (Potential high risk of loosing data when trying to remove
  multiple folders in earlier versions)

Version 3.0.4

• Add support for light theme
• Make background white for video player when isLightTheme
• Add rew and ffwd buttons to video player

Version 3.0.3

• searchText: Hide on Esc; Focus Webview on hide and search
• urlText: support modifier .com/.net/.org shortcuts; merge code duplication
• added*hw keyboard switch setting + overview page (switch between BB10 like shortcuts or desktop browser shortcuts) [Thanks to jgibbon for this awesome work]
• urlText: focus webview on escape
• bookmarks: hide on escape
• Renamed open-url-webcat to harbour-webcat-open-url + set icon theme and add german translation + use x-scheme-handler for *
  mimetypes (allows setting webcat as default browser in mimer again)
• Workaround to allow registering harbour-webcat-open-url as http/https handler in the mime database
• Only copy over dbus service file if necessary
• Updated translations (Polish, Swedish, French, Spanish)

Version 3.0.2

• Make quickscroll area smaller, appear after bigger threshold, and don't react on pressed
• fine tune extraThreshold for landscape quickscroll
• Disable some debug output
• Fixed moving of files (causing loss of data) in filemanager
• Fixed filepicker not able to select files
• Faster tab switching
• Don't loose keyboard shortcuts on tab switch / creating new Tab
• Add function to get nextTab and prevTab
• Added shortcut for quick tab switching ctrl+tab & ctrl+shift+tab
• hide tabBar and bookmarkList before switching tab
• Open Filemanager immediate and don't perform animation when entering about:file
• Add more keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+W - Close, Ctrl+T - New Tab, Ctrl+N - New Window, Escape - Stop)
• Allow swiping on urlTitle (only visible after website loaded completely) to switch tabs
• Use threshold value resolution dependent for back/forward swipes on minimized toolbar
• Fix highlighted tab not filling whole width with highlight

Version 3.0.1

• Fixed mimetype set as default browser
• Fixed keyboard shortcut for showing bookmarks not working
• Q should open up bookmarks/tab view aswell [like on BB10]
• Press A on keyboard to add current page to bookmarks
• Fixed editing of bookmarks / manually adding bookmarks
• Fixed wrong aligned ulrtext when pressing U shortcut on keyboard
• Made fancyscroller width a little bit shorter
• Fixed create folder in home + showing error message when folder cannot be created
• Don't show Add to places for home dir

Version 3.0.0

• Only add default bookmarks once on first start (not if bookmarks are empty)
• Cleanup (Make TabBar otherComponent)
• Added nightMode Button (replaced newWindow button) [Thx to Dharmendra63]
• Updated urls for default bookmarks
• Port away from SelectUrl page and use TabBar and BookmarkList components (faster navigation less clutter)*
• Added workaround for rendering cut when window in background
• Doubleclick on Goto Button switches to previous Tab
• Distinguish single and doubleClick on gotoButton more and don't fire singleClick event when doubleClicking (200msec delay timer checks for single and double click)
• Hide webview when bookmarkList is visible (more performance on some devices)
• Added File Properties Page for FM
• Open internal video player for audio files aswell
• Allow opening files with a click on file icon in properties
• Added RenameDialog + show full size of directories
• Added CreateDirDialog + fixed removing of folders
• Added permissionDialog
• Adapt to new SailfishOS Gallery video player defaults (Close button top right, Fullscreen button bottom right)
• Fixed margin bottom of fullscreenbutton + margin right for when maxTime is not visible
• Proper fix for video player component size and anchors after exiting fullscreen or changing orientation
• Added placesPage for FileManager
• Removed Pulleymenuitems available in placesPage and add properties to pulleymenu in filemanager
• Calculate dirSize in background so it does not freeze FileManager UI
• Added option to add custom bookmarks to placesPage
• Allow renaming of custom places items
• Allow setting desktop link to Webcat Fileman
• Double click on video player component switches to or from fullscreen
• Disable Split WebView as not working anymore
• Fixed Video Player Component wrongly anchored on close
• VideoPlayer Component takes now 1/3 of the the screensize in portrait mode and allows you to browse the web while watching a video
• Allow swiping video player component up and down to reposition when not in fullscreen or landscape
• Make sure webview gets visible when exiting fullscreen in portrait mode*
• Make sure to hide webview on fullscreen all the time
• Removed pressandhold on gotoButton and quick extraToolbar navigation
• Cleaned up extraToolbar. Removed newTab + closeTab.
• Visually redesigned MenuPopup to match rest of Webcat
• Always show 7 items in extra toolbar and align them to screen size
• Removed menuPopup from Tabbar (is available now in extraToolbar)
• Make extraToolbar bigger
• Use solid highlight color dimmed down as tabbar highlight (show active tab)
• Removed Jolla Tides default bookmark (website not active anymore)
• Added tor icon in tab/gotoButton if tor is enabled
• Fixed infoBanner for proxyPage and tor disabling
• Fixed urltext anchoring and switch to webtitle + weburl when title of webpage is available
• Fixed mediaDownloadRec overlaying menuPopup
• Fixed webview height/width by anchoring it to page and hide toolbars (except minimized main toolbar) at page end
• Simulate quickScroll UI in FancyScroller when in landscape mode
• Don't minimize toolbar when loading initial default about: urls
• Fixed mediadetect running on touchend conflicts with previously detected media (disabled touchend)
• Only check youtube url and add url to history if not about: url
• Don't hide mediaDownloadRec if atYBeginning and atYEnd
• Better workaroundRefresh method
• Set pixelAligned to true (slightly smoother website scrolling)

You can get the app in the warehouse and jolla store aswell and rate it there

Videodemonstration: http://youtu.be/1uVjaETqmMA
0.9-1 Videodemo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNYjdr5tCSs
0.9.6 Videodemo: http://youtu.be/vttkJgKOK48
1.9.9 Videodemo: http://youtu.be/WZXlqOrLKK8
2.0.9 Videodemo: https://youtu.be/Ck2TND0-PwE
2.1.0 Videodemo Backupmanager: https://youtu.be/sBge7JAlXro
2.2.0 Videodemo Fast Tab Switching: https://youtu.be/iaeMNppgOSQ
2.3 Videodemo:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeffwP7SXkY
3.0 New Features:https://youtu.be/Tm4uT1YZdfQ

nothing can see after install when I start it

Thanks for your work. But I have two problems:

Hmm... need to debug it. Just a sec.

I have also experienced these two errors (not being able to install through Warehouse and the blank screen).

The error code of the former is:
I know it's hard to debug such things when databases persist in the SDK

EDIT: Nevermind, that was not the right advice. But the error lies there.

For the white screen please make sure to have qt5-qtgraphicaleffects installed.
I will upload a new package with this as dependency when I figured out the db.js problem.
Thx for your help and patience.

Update: I think I fixed it: https://openrepos.net/sites/default/...-2.armv7hl.rpm

llelectronics you won't make it to harbour with gt5-qtgraphicaleffects

Really ? Hmm... then I need to think about something else to make it to harbour.

Thanks! Looks great!

Just few issues I noticed:

• The URL bar covers a small part of the page - on one website I visit, there a link to switch to mobile version, which is currently hidden behind the bar (I just noticed that the bar becomes thinner after scrolling, but only on longer pages).
• The tab bar is visually bit confusing - not really sure what is current tab... You could remove the 'New tab' and 'Close' buttons as they're accessible through the pulley menu
• Would you consider adding bookmark editing function? It is quite easy to edit bookmarks in the default browser (through a config file), but since here it's in a database... It is difficult to make a bookmark pointing to http://talk.maemo.org/search.php?do=getnew
• Switching to landcape and then back to portrait zooms the page in
• Rotation animation is not very smooth

These are just minor issues - I am very impressed by your work. I wouldn't have imagined something would replace the default browser in its initial version. Simply amazing.