Konqueror vs. Firefox -- Accessing Gmail -- Success!

[Robert Tilley]

On Wednesday 04 April 2007 04:54:22 pm Robert Tilley wrote:
> Is there something different about the Konqueror build for Kubuntu?
>
> I can access Google Gmail easily with the standards-compliant Firefox while
> Konqueror simply chokes and dies.  I thought Konqueror was standards
> compliant and even passed the ACID2 test for page rendering.
>
> Is it's ability to run scripts/AJAX inferior to Firefox's?  This is an
> honest question to determine the source of the issue.

I set Konqueror to identify itself to gmail.com as "Mozilla 1.7.3 on Windows 
XP" and Gmail began working.  (At least, it displays correctly.  I still need 
to test all the functionality...)

Thanks for the help!

Bob
-- 
BOFH excuse #48:

bad ether in the cables