Konqueror still usable?
Hi, I'm using KDE for many years and I was always using the Konqueror web browser in situations where I need a quick web browser and didn't want to start the more heavy firefox or chrome browser. For instance when reading some news page. I have flash and java disabled for Konqueror but for some time using Konqueror is more and more annoying. Adblock needs manual tweaking and I experience strange delays when opening web pages, could be script-related. Does it still make sense to use Konqueror in certain situations, are there some hints for improving the configuration or should I just uninstall it? Thanks, Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1712033.Qp18NUjNux@noys2
Re: Konqueror still usable?
On 18/06/15 17:26, Frank Mehnert wrote: Does it still make sense to use Konqueror in certain situations, are there some hints for improving the configuration or should I just uninstall it? I use it with Javascript, Java, cookies and images disabled; obviously this isn't going to work for a great many websites but for my purposes it's great. The Load Images button is there [apart from when the HTML Toolbar disappears, which is far too often] for when a page has an image of interest on it. Sometimes a page won't render well and switching the view mode to Webkit fixes that. I use Firefox [well, Iceweasel] for things that need a login but 90% of my browsing is in Konqueror. I suspect that puts me in the 1% of the 1%. One recent annoyance is that Google won't accept search queries from Konqueror without Javascript enabled [puts you in an endless reload loop, eventually you have to fill in a captcha]; luckily Konqueror has domain-specific policies that let you fix that. Another fix that worked was pretending to be IE on Windows 2000. Someone on IRC told me elinks had the same problem, but I've just checked now and Google seem to have reverted this change. Something in Konqueror that broke years ago was search queries from the search box, but I don't miss it. alexd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55832bf0.7060...@ale.cx
Re: Konqueror still usable?
Hi: El Jueves, 18 de junio de 2015 18:26:27 Frank Mehnert escribió: Hi, I'm using KDE for many years and I was always using the Konqueror web browser in situations where I need a quick web browser and didn't want to start the more heavy firefox or chrome browser. For instance when reading some news page. I have flash and java disabled for Konqueror but for some time using Konqueror is more and more annoying. Adblock needs manual tweaking and I experience strange delays when opening web pages, could be script-related. Does it still make sense to use Konqueror in certain situations, are there some hints for improving the configuration or should I just uninstall it? I know what you mean. I'm in the same situation. I've been using konqueror since I started using Debian and that was lng ago. It used to be a great browser: fast, light, featureful. Unfortunately it's not like this anymore. Take this example. I'm a heavy tab user and there's a annoying bug that freezes konqueror when you close a tab (I think it's related to KJS). I'm telling you this because I'm afraid core web modules are no longer maintained, being javascript interpreter one of the most influencing in the user experience. Besides this, there are 2 rendering engines for html: KHTML and Webkit. KDE decided to used webkit as default engine and it indeeds improve user experience. I'm not sure when the switch happened since I'm always being in favour of KHTML whose integration was better. Nowaydays, unfortunately both have problems with the most recent features a browser are required. For instance, HTML5 videos works on some webs with KHTML and not with Webkit, whereas webkit works better on pages with heavy JS usage. It's even worse if you try and use for a short time iceweasel, like it happened to me. Then you get used to get things working on almost all cases and you are subconsciently moved away from konqueror. Anyway, I still resist. Let's see. Disclaimer: I haven't use KF5 yet. I don't know how things are there. Thanks, Frank That's my experience, HTH. -- Raúl Sánchez Siles -Proud Debian user- Linux registered user #416098 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Konqueror still usable?
On Thursday, 2015-06-18, 18:26:27, Frank Mehnert wrote: Hi, I'm using KDE for many years and I was always using the Konqueror web browser in situations where I need a quick web browser and didn't want to start the more heavy firefox or chrome browser. For instance when reading some news page. I have flash and java disabled for Konqueror but for some time using Konqueror is more and more annoying. Adblock needs manual tweaking and I experience strange delays when opening web pages, could be script-related. Does it still make sense to use Konqueror in certain situations, are there some hints for improving the configuration or should I just uninstall it? I've been using Konqueror as my main browser for as long as it exists I think and I am still using it as such. I've switched to WebKti as the render engine some time ago though. Cheers, Kevin signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
