Comments on: Web Browser Hero

By: browsers

browsers — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:43:40 +0000

Fantastic site. Plenty of useful information here. I am sending it to several pals ans also sharing in delicious. And certainly, thanks for your effort!

By: georgecaragea

georgecaragea — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I use konqueror all the time for a variety of tasks, although only rarely for web browsing. This article seems to refer to Konqueror/KDE 3.x, how have things changed in KDE 4.x? And why on earth is dolphin the preferred file manager for KDE 4??

By: ron@mideiros.net

ron@mideiros.net — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Konqueror is great. The swiss army knife of KDE. I have heard this is changed in KDE 4 with Dolphin (still on KDE 3.5). From what I have seen, distros keep pushing KDE to be more like GNOME, which is garbage. Stay the course!

By: timothyb89

timothyb89 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It's extremely rare for me to find a page that doesn't render correctly in both 3.5 and 4.0.

Konqueror uses KHTML (now WebKit in 4.0)- the same engine Safari uses, so you can basically render anything in Konqueror that can be rendered in Safari.

Also, to load pages like Yahoo that check the user agent: Tools> Change Browser Identification and they should load perfectly. (Use Firefox, Mozilla, or Safari)

Konqueror (for KDE 4) is also capable of the standard file management, just like Dolphin. I suppose you could use it as your default file manager, but Dolphin is an awesome file manager.

By: mitzip

mitzip — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I often use Konqueror as a web browser when I don’t want to launch Firefox, for fear of hosing my internet connection for 5 minutes while I wait for all 188 tabs to load up. ;-) I also LOVE Konqueror’s customizable “Action” menus. There are TONS of them available from flipping, splitting, joining PDFs on the fly to batch auto resizing images. Not to mention writing my own! The only problem is in KDE 4 they’ve introduced Dolphin as the default file manager. I’m still not so sure about it. Dolphin definitely hasn’t shown to be a contender to Konqueror, IMHO.

By: codie hacka

codie hacka — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Konqueror is an awesome tool all the way around, and is light to boot. Five stars for certain.

By: ghostly

ghostly — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Truly a great and handy browser. One of the little ‘tricks’ I regularly use is to do a google search, simply type gg: followed by your search string. Too easy!

By: justinlawrence

justinlawrence — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

i still prefer konqueror over both firefox and dolphin. i would much have preferred if the dolphin guys had just added their great features (like the / filter and the breadcrumb navigation) onto the existing functionality of the konqueror file manager.

diverge then converge i say.

By: drteeth

drteeth — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

For me, one of the most powerful features of konqueror (and also of dolphin) is the ability to attach a terminal window to the browser and tie it into the directory window. It gives me all the ease of use of a gui and the sheer power of the command line. A fantastically powerful combination.

Oh yes and don't forget the filesize viewer is great way of seeing instantly your disk usage.

Love it!!

By: prairiedog6791

prairiedog6791 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

One indispensable feature for me in file management task is the context menu “copy to…” and “move to…”. Simply amazing, and I’m with drteeth about the terminal window.

Fantastic program!

By: btorre

btorre — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Looks (and sounds) like konqueror is to kde as explorer is to windows. This concept is nothing new…however, it appears to be more elegantly implemented in this instance.

By: mahasamoot

mahasamoot — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I want KDE to due well as I don’t care for gnome. However, I’ve never been impressed by Konqueror. I get the impression that KDE is loosing ground, and pushing 2nd rate browsers doesn’t help. The KDE folks should work with the Mozilla guys to get proper integration of Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird. Then KDE really would have a top notch browser suite.

By: borrajax

borrajax — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Konqueror (as file manager) rules!! :D (although for web browsing I tend to use Firefox)

Dolphin… suc… eeeehm… doesn’t rule that much… ;)

By: davidmintz

davidmintz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks! The tip about using fish://… to mount remote directories has improved my life. When I wanted to use konqueror following an upgrade from Fedora 7 to 10, I found it was not installed by default. No problem, except it took some stumbling and searching to discover a way to install it on Fedora 10:

yum install kdebase

By: ezeuba

ezeuba — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I choose konqueror to dolphin anyday anytime. At least in konqueror one had access to root file manager, not available in dolphin… u have to tweak and heave and ho before u can get it right, and fater that it usually does not read the root directory well. Konqueror for me anyday, anytime

By: justinlawrence

justinlawrence — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

i prefer konqueror as well.

dolphin has a few cool features that should have been integrated into konqueror, rather than a reinvention of the wheel. we’ve taken a huge step back and lost a lot of our advantage by not doing so.