are you comparing having firefox closed and then opening and navigating to 
google maps, or just opening a tab and browsing there? because in my experience 
browsers take a little bit of time when you first open them... and it's the 
same with webview. So it kind of sounds like you're comparing apples to 
oranges... try loading webview to something other than the google maps, and 
then once that first page is done navigate to a map and see if it's still 
slow...
If you're really worried about it i'm pretty sure you could set it up so that 
webview loads up when the application first starts up (at the expense of extra 
RAM)... not that I'm a developer of it or anything, but just from my experience 
with other parts of qt, things are often loaded only when necessary.

Morgan

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To: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 06:50:06 +1000
Subject: [Interest] WebView in Qt 5.1 - first impressions

Now that I have WebView successfully displaying Google Maps in Qt 5.1 I thought 
I would share my first impressions. For a start, it seems to be way slower than 
Firefox or any other standard browser on this machine. When I open Google Maps 
in Firefox, the entire page is loaded and rendered in about 2 seconds. When I 
open the exact same page in WebView it takes about 10 seconds to load and 
render the entire page. Once the initial page is loaded though the speed at 
which other linked pages are loaded and rendered seems to be not that much 
slower than in Firefox. However, there seem to be a few behavioural quirks that 
I have noticed. For example, clicking the left mouse button and dragging the 
map is supposed to pan around but in WebView it has no effect. Also, 
double-clicking zooms into the map in Firefox and then subsequent double-clicks 
zoom in even further. With WebView the first double-click zooms in as expected 
but the second one then zooms back out again. Why is loading the first page in 
WebView so much slower than a standard browser? Why are there anomalies in the 
way the page behaves (especially with the mouse) and are these quirks likely to 
be fixed in a future release? -jct
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