An update on current stability problems - was: Re: Problem installing in Windows

[Stefan Rödiger]

Hi,

This sounds like a lot of work.
At the same time it is also surprising, that something central like QWebEngine is so 
challenging to dealt with.

Thanks for sharing your plans.

Kind regards
Stefan

On Samstag, 7. Februar 2026 11:34:35 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit Thomas Friedrichsmeier 
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a short update on my thoughts/plans to address current - QWebEngine-related
> - stability problems, as this may actually take some time to implement:
> 
> 1. It feels like 90% of our issues stem from QWebEngine, of late. And this
> is not even counting problems WRT building and packaging.
> 
> 2. QWebEngine 6.10.1 - which is currently in use on our builders - appears
> to be a particularly buggy version. Qt 6.10.2 is out, and there is some
> hope that it will resolve some of the issues, but I cannot give you a
> timeline on just when it will be available for our builders (hopefully
> within a week or two), nor a promise that it will actually help.
> 
> 3. Even if QWebEngine 6.10.2 does solve the current problems, I'd love to
> have some alternatives. Yesterday I learned that Qt's other web component
> (QWebView) has meanwhile learned to use system native HTML viewers on both
> Mac and Windows. That sounds like it may avoid a whole class of troubles at
> least on those platforms. QWebView is not going to be quite trivial to use,
> however, as the coupling is much more indirect, and we will have to somehow
> add support certain functionality (importantly handling rkward:// and
> help:// urls) via injected javascript, and - probably - websockets. I'll
> experiment in that area, next, hoping this will turn out to be a viable
> solution.
> 
> 4. In the longer term, I hope Servo will bring back some diversity into the
> embeddable HTML render landscape. But that does not look like a solution for
> 2026, yet.
> 
> Regards
> Thomas


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