Comments on: Konqueror in KDE 4.5: Huge Step Forward

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:45:59 +0000

I’ve only installed Firefox for rare cases when I need to enter stubborn online banking sites and such HTTP header-sniffing things.

By: Andrej

Andrej — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:40:47 +0000

I’ve been testing Fedora 14 when it was released and as far as I remember they use the KHTML engine as default.Other than that I also use Konqueror for almost all the browsing lately. It really works great and I love the integration into KDE Plasma and also loading other document types like PDFs right in the tabs. And in rare situation that some site gives me trouble I use Rekonq which is a nice WebKit based browser, still at its early phase so it has some nice features from Konqueror missing.

By: twitter

twitter — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:46:32 +0000

Oh no, you have mistaken a strength as a weakness. The ability to view all sorts of documents is a great strength of Konqueror and this is especially true of pdfs. Being able to open pdfs in multiple tabs like any other document is a huge benefit to serious research. There are some problems with sites like scribd, which actually use Flash to display pdfs as a crutch for users of that other OS. It is generally backwad and inconvenient to use viewers outside of a browser the way browsers call Adobe Reader in Windows.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:08:45 +0000

I was trying to find this out earlier. I looked at all the menu items and Konqueror settings just trying to answer this question (in vain), but I ran through these widgets too quickly. I use Fedora’s default (maybe they changed KDE defaults).

By: Thomas Zander

Thomas Zander — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:55:37 +0000

Is this using khtml or the webkit renderer?

I think that in 4.5 the default finally went to webkit which would be a reason for the huge improvement

By: Tom Zöhner

Tom Zöhner — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:16:45 +0000

Did you use Konqueror with khtml or webkit engine?