Why do people dislike Dolphin?

Brendan mailinglist at endosquid.com
Thu Nov 6 03:14:33 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 05 November 2008, Art Alexion wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Lindsay Mathieson
>
> <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 06:34:29 am Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >> 2008/11/5 Willy Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com>:
> >> > the smart decisiuon would have been to keep konqueror as an excellent
> >> > file manager, and create a new dedicated web browser called dolphin.
> >>
> >> That would have introduced another web browser to the already crowded
> >> pool. Besides, believe it or not, Konqueror is respected as a very
> >> good web browser, even if it is not a very usable web browser.
> >
> > Why do you find it not usable? Personally I find it fine - not that
> > different from any other webbrowser. Its just the flash support that bugs
> > me :)
>
> While I find the flash support fine, I wouldn't find it usable if it
> didn't support flash.  I don't particularly like flash, and always
> install flashblock on firefox (would be nice if konqueror supported
> firefox extensions) I wouldn't call a browser that didn't display
> flash when I did want it useful.

Hard to shop online without flash, and I use flashblock as well...but damn, if 
the 360, rotate, zoom thing isn't useful...Almost as useful as huge images, 
but nobody online except Maxpedition, does that anymore.





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