New default web browser on KDE Spin

[John Pilkington]

On 28/07/15 10:36, Ian Malone wrote:
> On 24 July 2015 at 19:53, bitlord <bitlord0xff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> *Unofically*
>> Konqueror is officially part of KDE, "we" want what KDE provides, not
>> sure about rekonq now I guess there are no new releases for a long time?
>> Rekonq can be compared with features to konqueror + kwebkitpart
>> (which is default on fedora) using qtwebkit instead of khtml, so I guess
>> it doesn't provide much more (but possibly less without some
>> non-critical features), there are people here who can tell you much
>> more about differences.
>>
>> Firefox is not integrated well with kde, it uses GTK+ (for some parts),
>> it doesn't integrate with kwallet ...
>>
>> I remember I was on one of the "recent" meetings (KDE SIG) (possibly few
>> months ago), someone mentioned this about possible change of default
>> browser.
>
>  From my point of view integration with kwallet is not something I
> actually want, a browser that works is. This is why I'm happily using
> Firefox on KDE. I was *delighted* to find kwallet has integrated
> itself into git. Ah, wait, I mean, resigned. *resigned* to find
> kwallet has integrated itself into git.
>
For years, without any deep investigation of the philosophy, I've used 
KDE, Firefox and Thunderbird, with Konqueror as file manager and viewer. 
  It WFM;  I think I would prefer to be able to restrict Konq to offline 
use, to avoid some confusion, but haven't found a way to do that.

John P