Konqueror problems

[Alain Muls]

Hi

Some time ago, there was a animated discussion about konqueror being THE KDE 
application that could be used for everything and that it would be far 
superior than eg Dolphin (I use the KDE4.1 version).

I decided to try both.
I quite like Dolphin and its "mac finder"-like column view, but I find that it 
crashes all together too often (crashes due to going up in the directory for 
several levels at one, or when a refresh of current directory is needed). 
Since Konqueror was so applauded, I decided to try it out for file management 
and web browsing.

In file management, the column view behaves exactly the same as in Dolphin and 
the exact same crashes are experienced. I suppose both applications use the 
same code. I therefore decided to stay with Dolphin for file management and 
live with these occasional crashes.

In web browsing, I found Konqueror lacking the ability to auto-detect the 
proxy settings, which is handled correctly by firefox. Also, when I open a link 
from a feed in kontact, I often get an error that konqueror is unable to 
display the html page since its render engine died, needing a restart. 
Moreover Konqueror does not display pages correctly displayed by firefox. This 
makes me wonder why konqueror is so much liked, or am I doing something wrong?

Tx/ALain