Pros / Cons: Replacing Konqueror with Firefox

[Mustafa Muhammad]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Sindre Wetjen <sindre.w at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 09 August 2015 10:34:48 Gerald B. Cox wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Mustafa Muhammad <
> mustafa1024m at gmail.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > OK, I didn't know this.
> > >
> > > But QtWebKit is not on par with upstream WebKit, not even close, not
> when
> > > Chromium used WebKit, and not now.
>
> Its hard to find any real data on this. If you have any, please share.
> Granted
> WebKit is lagging behind and Safari (the only major browser using it) is
> being
> called the new IE6, but it is still an active and popular rendering engine.
>

You can test Konq on your machine, for me I get 355 in html5test.com
Chrome switched to Blink in version 28
I tested Konqueror    355
>From the site [1]
Chrome 24   433
Safari 9        400
Safari 8        396

So even 2 years ago, Chrome is ahead of what we have now.

[1]
http://html5test.com/compare/browser/chrome-24/safari-9.0/safari-8.0.html
<http://html5test.com/compare/browser/chrome-24/safari-9.0/safari-8.0.html>


>
> > > Chromium is a very good choice, it also integrates well with kwallet,
> but
> > > it is not in Fedora.
> >
> > .... (cut)
> >
> > That said however, I'm not suggesting it replace Konqueror as the
> default.
> > If people want it, or
> > Chrome for that matter, it's a trivial matter to install.
>
> Actually, that makes much more sense. (to be clear, Chromium not Chrome)
> - It has better support for a lot of things.
> - It is targeted by more developers which means that less things will go
> wrong
> - It integrates better with KDE.
> - Google has not yet decided to enforce any central control on it.
> - It is possible to get "new" flash.
> - The UI is familiar and can be synced with existing accounts for a larger
> part of the population.
>
> And if what Kevin said about the development of Blink is true, then there
> is
> still a hope we can get it in Fedora.
>
> Off course this is all in the future, but I think it underlines the
> unnecessary
> change to Firefox because it is not a good choice either for non-power
> users.
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