New default web browser on KDE Spin

[Mustafa Muhammad]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 3:08 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Eric Griffith composed on 2015-07-24 12:06 (UTC-0400):
>
>> What would it take / whats the protocol to push forward the idea of
>> replacing Konqueror as the default web browser? Konqueror doesn't seem like
>> its going anywhere, and I really think that the user experience would be
>> better served if either Rekonq, or ideally, Firefox were the default
>> browsers. Is there any specific reason that Konqueror has stuck around as
>> the default for so long?
>
> Where is it you think it needs to go?
>
> 1-Its UI is mature (predictable, comfortable for those who need to get work done)
>
> 2-It incorporates a choice of two rendering engines, one matching the
> functionality of Chromium (WebKit),

It does NOT match the functionality of Chrome

http://html5test.com/
Konqueror with WebKit 355 out of 555
Chrome                         526 out of 555
Firefox                           467 out of 555

Chrome uses Blink, a fork of WebKit, even when Chrome used WebKit, it
was faster and offered better HTML5 support (maybe kwebkitpart used an
older version of WebKit).

I know that I talk about users I see, developers and new converts to
Linux, but none of them uses Konqueror, the other two are much richer
(HTML5, extensions, etc.) and intuitive.
One basic thing in Konq, when I write google, I can't just press
ctrl+enter to go to google.com, I know everything is customizable but
defaults are important especially in first impressions.

> the other that enables using some web
> sites (largely older) as intended without any need for them to be restyled
> (KHTML; functionality discarded from all major name browsers: sizing in
> physical units that are accurate when logical display density matches display
> device density: pt, in, cm, mm; Geckos can so render if restyled using
> proprietary mozmm CSS units, but in others it's entirely impossible.).
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