State of Konqueror ?

[Richard]

On Thursday 17 January 2008 3:22:27 pm Paul S wrote:
> Richard said the following on 01/17/2008 02:45 PM:
> > last, the Only browser, that score over 60 in the acid3 test,  was
> > firefox 3 beta 3, Konqueror version 3.5.8 [crash and burn.]
>
> The truth is that all gecko based browsers freeze on certain javascript
> web pages I view.  Talk about wasting time killing and restarting and
> reloading.  It's a daily problem here.  The only way I can get it to
> work is to use konqueror to identify the url of the script, then cut and
> paste it into firefox's adblock filter.  Then I can get firefox to work,
> but it's very time consuming and annoying.

try Firefox 3 beta 3 its allot better than 2.x.11 (MUCH)

>
> > I'm just pointing out, some issue with Konqueror, would hate to see,
> > a great application, get thrown by the wayside... as it appears to be
> > happening... according to all the hype about kde 4 and its eyecandy.
>
> Konqueror is worse in it's present state, but my hope is that webkit can
> be successfully used to make it better than firefox on all web pages,
> then I'll make the switch.  If it weren't for the flash plugin problem,
> I'd be testing it out now with webkitkde as the driver.

How True, webkit?, hmm, anything than letting it die a slow death,
and yes, for Flash you are stuck with 9.x.48 of flash,
and which veoh.com will not work, with the older version of flash.


>
> What happened to opera .. I just tried it on a web page that konqueror
> couldn't work because of the flash problem, and even opera didn't work
> with the latest flash .. is it broken too?

Yes, Opera, has some issue with flash, there something new in flash 9.x.115 
that requires some other pieces of software, Opera is stuck at 9.x48 of flash 
plug-in as well.


Richard