#1121379 konqueror: Runs very slowly using QtWebEngineProc

Package:
konqueror
Source:
konqueror
Description:
advanced file manager, web browser and document viewer
Submitter:
Date:
2025-11-25 14:45:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1121379#5
Date:
2025-11-25 14:43:17 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

Some weeks ago I upgraded this System to Debian 'Forky'
And experienced intermittent faults and slow operation.

The faults were difficult to diagnose because mouse
operations were affected. I was able to log in as
'root' on tty1, and I disabled the screensaver to aid
diagnosis when I figured that part out.

I ran 'top' and noted that
(a) QtWebEngineProc was running 100%
(b) QtWebEngineProc had 1157.2g in the VIRT column

I attempted to raise a bug report, but ReportBug
failed to find a qtwebengine package on this machine,
or if it was there it was not one of the ten
packages offered to include in the report.

Using apt-get install qtwebengine5-dev caused some
ten packages to be installed

(c) QtWebEngineProc still has 1157.2g in the VIRT column,
but two instances of QtWebEngineProc are now running,
according to top.

While konqueror now seems more responsive, loading several
websites sequentially, seems problematic.