On Friday 24 June 2005 09:22 pm, hacker wrote: > On 6/24/05, Björn Krombholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6/25/05, hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been trying to figure out if Debian includes the "gecko bindings" > > > referred to and whether it's possible to get a gecko like konqueror > > > working. I'm using sarge (kde 3.3.2) but could upgrade if needed? > > > > > > Anyone know? > > > > It had been packaged some time ago, but was removed because nobody > > cared about. See > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2001/11/msg00470.html and > > follow-ups. > > Thanks for the reference. Kmozilla was something available in 2001? > .. must have been around kde-2.something still. My impression is that > KDE programmers came out with an improved gecko part in 2004 (which > could have made it into KDE-3.3.x). Anyway, I'd vote for another > attempt at it. > > I'm sure most agree konquerer is not very useful as a web browser, > especially if it's as simple as described in the thread referenced.
To be honest I do web development and I work primarily in konqueror. I also rarely run into pages that don't work well in it. I find pages break about equally often between gecko, khtml and opera just in slightly different ways. However for development I don't like mozilla/firefox etc since they are so much heavier. I often run 4-8 instances of a brower with 6-10 tabs each and with mozilla/firefox that chews up a lot more memory and runs a lot slower then konqueror does. For code that is 100% spec konqueror is usually a faster rendering agent also and there are some parts of http that mozilla still does not get right very well which makes it a pain for debugging stuff. Opera is fast but proprietary.