Pros / Cons: Replacing Konqueror with Firefox

[Mustafa Muhammad]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:

> Mustafa Muhammad wrote:
>
> > On Aug 8, 2015 4:55 PM, "Sindre Wetjen"
> > <sindre.w at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> There is another way to look at that. We will have the least popular
> >> rendering engine (except KHTML, but I don't consider it relevant since
> >> QtWebKit is the default in konq).
> >
> > And this is a bad thing.
>
> Read the context, you just wrote that shipping Firefox would be a bad
> thing.
> Thanks! :-p
>

:) QtWebKit is less popular than Gecko :)

>
> >> On Friday 07 August 2015 15:03:41 Mustafa Muhammad wrote:
> >> > 3) Familiar experience for first time users, Firefox tries to look
> >> > similar on all platforms.
> >>
> >> Why is this an issue? Browsers are a location bar and tabs. They all
> look
> >> the same.
> >
> > It is not a big issue, this is what I am trying to say.
>
> Well, a browser is actually more than a location bar and tabs. A browser
> also has a toolbar with icons, it has file dialogs for downloads, it has
> preferences, etc. And for those, looking and feeling like the other
> applications on the desktop environment is more important than looking and
> feeling like Firefox on another operating system.
>
> Dialogs, Preferences, and others are well integrated with the look and
feel of the whole "browser".


> The location bar and the tabs indeed behave similarly in all browsers, so
> indeed, as Sindre wrote, familiarity should not be an issue. Thus there is
> no advantage for Firefox there. And that said, the tabs also have a visual
> style, which should match the desktop environment, and Konqueror's location
> bar supports those nice "web shortcuts" (e.g. "gg:") that make the search
> bar redundant (without unsafe guesswork such as sending all typoed or
> temporarily down URLs to Google, ewww!) and allow power users to disable
> it.
> So even there, Konqueror wins.
>

I used gg before, after digging for it, I think most users don't know it
exist.


>         Kevin Kofler
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