KubuntuMaverickWebBrowser

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Summary

Include a decent web browser in Kubuntu Maverick

Release Note

Kubuntu now comes with Rekonq, a fast, powerful modern web browser integrated with the KDE Platform.

Rationale

Our current web browser does not work in a lot of places.

User stories

Annemarie uses Kubuntu to read her e-mail in GMail and browse auctions in eBay.

Assumptions

Upstream have a stable release in line with our schedule.

Implementation

Switch to Rekonq in the kubuntu-common seed.

Drop Konqueror from the seed.

Modify kickoff to set Rekonq as the favourite for browser. Ensure upgrades work changing konqueror to rekonq in the favourites.

Find out why upstream ships Rekonq without any translations. Help them get it translated upstream and shipping with translations.

Ensure Rekonq is the highest priority option for text/html mimetype and is higher than Konqueror (currently set to 9).

File bugs with Rekonq upstream for obvious deficiencies.

Work with upstream to ensure a stable release in line with our release schedule.

Review list of default search engines. Bing and Baidu probably should be added. Google Groups

Review adblock list, we haven't updated in a while and it is probably out of date.

BoF Discussion

Some issues we found during the session which we'd like to see fixed. 

failed sites:
hotmail - needs special case user agent
cnn - videos not working
yahoo - freezes daily build

kpart integration is nice but e.g. Find does not work within kparts
don't ask for text/pdf integration, just do it

compressed files with content encoding=gzip does not seem to work e.g.
https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rekonq/0.4.0-0ubuntu1/+build/1558605/+files/buildlog_ubuntu-lucid-amd64.rekonq_0.4.0-0ubuntu1_FULLYBUILT.txt.gz

occational crashes
pointless Home button on toolbar

"clear address bar" button returned to address bar

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/ certificate information points to Google Analytics

favicons often don't show

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