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Cocobo-1 Apprentice
Joined: 18 Dec 2003 Posts: 166 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 3:30 pm Post subject: Firefox to Konqueror migration help |
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I run firefox and today i heard that konqueror passed to acid2 test and decided to try it out. I have used it before as filemanager because I'm a kde user but I have always found flaws in the webbrowser. I have used it for most of the day and it works fine most of the time. It have many useful functions firefox lacks but it's also missing some important functionality i have gotten used to and can't live without. To give it an honest chance before i dismiss it I'll post my issues here and see if someone have a solution or workaround.
* adblock?
* the possibility to open all links in a folder in new tabs (useful for news sites)
* find as you type. Ctrl+f is not good enough.
* it want to download direct links to JPEG files and asks me what program I want to open them with. I want to view the images in konqueror of course.
* Dubble klicking on a link only selects part of the link. Many webpages have links as text and I use to dubble klick on them and then center klick to go to the address.
* I can't get mplayerplug-in to work. I must have done something wrong. All I want to know is if it's possible to make it work.
* The icons in the bookmark toolbar is to large. I can change the size of all the toolbar buttons but I haven't found a way to make the bookmark icons smaller. _________________ Professor: "Good news, everyone. Several years ago I tried to log onto AOL, and
it just went through. Whee! We're online."
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radfoj Guru
Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 490 Location: Tísek, Czech Republic
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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- acid2 test - it will be available maybe in version 3.4.2.
- adblock is also available in SVN version, but before it will be officially out, try KDE Konqueror - AdBlock Howto
- find as you type - just press / and start typing
- bookmark toolbar - in my case, its same as others toolbars (you can choose how large, only icon, only text, text under icon and so)
- mplayerplug-in - dont use myself, I have emerged kmplayer and works fine (other suggestion are welcome)
url as text - there is extension for firefox, but dont how to do it in konq
dont understand that about jpeg |
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dmitchell Veteran
Joined: 17 May 2003 Posts: 1159 Location: Austin, Texas
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 3:46 pm Post subject: Re: Firefox to Konqueror migration help |
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Cocobo-1 wrote: | * the possibility to open all links in a folder in new tabs (useful for news sites) |
Right-click on a folder and select 'Open Folder in Tabs'. _________________ Your argument is invalid. |
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radfoj Guru
Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 490 Location: Tísek, Czech Republic
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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danmitchell: that was very fine - tripple click - why you delete it?
I tried and it really select it and middle click open it. But in current tab.
So I sugest tripple-click and middle-click on tab-toolbar |
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dmitchell Veteran
Joined: 17 May 2003 Posts: 1159 Location: Austin, Texas
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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radfoj wrote: | danmitchell: that was very fine - tripple click - why you delete it? |
It doesn't work; it selects the entire line. _________________ Your argument is invalid. |
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radfoj Guru
Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 490 Location: Tísek, Czech Republic
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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danmitchell wrote: | radfoj wrote: | danmitchell: that was very fine - tripple click - why you delete it? |
It doesn't work; it selects the entire line. |
Right, I tried it on text-url and there wasnt anything other on that line.
Btw it would be nice, to know more tips for "konqueror as webbrowser". Does anybody know about some link? |
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pilaf n00b
Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 8 Location: Argentina
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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radfoj wrote: |
Btw it would be nice, to know more tips for "konqueror as webbrowser". Does anybody know about some link?
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http://david.jamesnet.ca/kde/konqueror.html
http://linuxreviews.org/kde/konqueror/
I use Konqueror as my main browser and it's great: featurefull, very standards compliant and blazingly fast, and it only gets better with new releases. Apple, who is using KHTML for Safari, recently opened a CVS server for KHTML development and KDE devels are also working hard in improving it. However, as of KDE 3.4.1 (latest version) there are still some annoyances with a few sites not working properly (esp. those with heavy use of AJAX, such as GMail or Google maps), so I still keep Firefox for fallback.
Can't wait for KDE 3.5. |
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Mad Merlin Veteran
Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 1155
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:21 am Post subject: |
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Also, one of the awesome things in Konqueror is the mouse gestures. Have a look in the KDE control center, then Regional & Accessibility > KHotKeys to enable them. You'll probably have to enable them globally and Konqueror's group specifically. I'm aware that Firefox has a similar mouse gestures plugin, but I find the mouse gestures for Konqueror to work quite a bit better. |
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