Per the summary, whenever I open a new tab Speed Dial can sometimes take several seconds to load before I'm able to navigate to a new page. When it does load, every preview is just either a broken image or a loading icon that doesn't change. When I hit the reload button on any preview, it simply defaults to a broken image right away. This reduces the usefulness of the Speed Dial page quite a bit, which is unfortunate since having used it on Vivaldi for some time before moving to Falkon, I got quite a bit of use out of it. I would love to see it improved here.
This should be fixed in Falkon 3.0.1, what version do you have?
Well, actually, you are probably missing required QML/QtQuick packages.
(In reply to David Rosca from comment #1) > This should be fixed in Falkon 3.0.1, what version do you have? I'm on 3.0.0 right now.
(In reply to David Rosca from comment #2) > Well, actually, you are probably missing required QML/QtQuick packages. Looks like I have the "QT5 QTQuick2 QML module" already installed, so going by the previous comment it looks like it's a matter of the 3.0.1 version of Falkon not making it to the Ubuntu MATE repositories yet. If that's the case I can just be patient until it does and see what happens.
Do you have QtWebEngineQuick installed? You should see the error when runnning Falkon from terminal.
(In reply to David Rosca from comment #5) > Do you have QtWebEngineQuick installed? > > You should see the error when runnning Falkon from terminal. I don't get an error, when I run from terminal it just goes back to the prompt while Falkon opens independently. So I don't get any messages that way at all. I did look for QtWebEngineQuick on Synaptic, and no available packages seem to mention it.
(In reply to kelseighn from comment #6) > I don't get an error, when I run from terminal it just goes back to the > prompt while Falkon opens independently. So I don't get any messages that > way at all. You must close current Falkon instance first.
(In reply to David Rosca from comment #7) > (In reply to kelseighn from comment #6) > > I don't get an error, when I run from terminal it just goes back to the > > prompt while Falkon opens independently. So I don't get any messages that > > way at all. > You must close current Falkon instance first. Ah, I see! Yes, I am missing QtWebEngineQuick. However, it doesn't seem to be available on the Ubuntu repositories so I have no clue what packages to look for.
Try qml-module-qtwebengine
And also please report this to Ubuntu packagers so the dependencies are fixed. Thanks.
(In reply to David Rosca from comment #9) > Try qml-module-qtwebengine That did the trick, thank you. The package is present and restarting Falkon resulted in a properly working speed dial. As to reporting to the Ubuntu package maintainers, I'm not exactly sure how to do that. Plus it may have been fixed for 3.0.1, for all I know.