https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379771
--- Comment #18 from Stefano Crocco <stefano.cro...@alice.it> ---
(In reply to przxqgl from comment #17)
> (In reply to Stefano Crocco from comment #16)
> > It's an old version of Konqueror, and many things have changed in the new
> > releases.
>
> it's an old story which keeps coming back to haunt me...
>
> > Could you please verify which is your default web browser engine?
> > (You can find in the General tab of Konqueror settings dialog, right below
> > the "Home page settings": it can be WebEngine, WebKit or KHTML).
>
> well, my version of konqueror has a "settings" menu, but i don't know how to
> get to a "General tab of Konqueror settings dialog", so you'll have to do a
> better job of telling me what you want.
>From the "Settings" menu, choose the "Configure Konqueror" entry to display the
settings dialog. On the left, there's a tree (I'm working from memory, as this
dialog has changed much in more recent versions of Konqueror). In these trees
there's at least one, but most likely two "General" entries: you need the first
(which should be, if I remember correctly, under the "Web behavior" entry).
Clicking on it will display in the right side of the dialog a page with several
configuration options: the third is labeled "Default web browser engine" (or
something very similar). You should check what is selected for that option.
Another way to do the same is opening any web page, then going to the "View"
menu, choosing the "View mode" submenu and looking at the checked entry.
Another thing you can check (which I forgot in my last answer) are the settings
in the "KDE Performance" page of the settings dialog. You can access it as
described above: the page is one of the first in the tree on the left (I think
the second one). Ensure that both entries in the page ("Preload an instance
after desktop startup" and "Always try to have one preloaded instance") are
unchecked. These options were quite broken in old versions of Konqueror and
could lead to strange behaviors.
> > Could you
> > please also try creating a new user and seeing whether you have the same
> > problems?
>
> i could probably do that, with step-by-step instructions, but it is beyond
> my current capabilities as a user.
In that case, it's better not to try. It's not that difficult, but since it
requires superuser access, a mistake could damage your system. A simpler, but
less complete test, is to ensure that Konqueror isn't running (to do so, from a
terminal run `killall konqueror`), then rename he file ~/.config/konquerorrc
and the directory ~/.local/share/konqueror to something else (for example,
~/.config/konquerorrc_old and ~/.local/share/konqueror_old): this will reset
your Konqueror configuration to the default values. You can then try running
Konqueror again and see whether you have the same problems or not. If things
not work correctly, there was something broken in your configuration files.
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