Konqueror problems

[Art Alexion]

The prior discussion revolved around KDE 3.5.x. Konqueror 4.x uses  
dolphin.part for file management.

As for web browsing, Firefox was always better at displaying certain  
sites because Konqueror insists more on wc3 standards.

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Art Alexion
Sent unsigned from an iPod. That's the reason for the top posting as  
well.

On Sep 25, 2008, at 4:20 AM, Alain Muls <alain.muls at telenet.be> wrote:

> 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
>
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