New default web browser on KDE Spin

[John Pilkington]

On 28/07/15 12:38, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 28.07.2015 um 13:14 schrieb John Pilkington:
>> 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
>
> because that makes no sense at all
>
> Konqueror as a file-manager is supposed to work with sftp and ftp
> out-of-the-box instead a crippled thing like Finder on OSX or the
> windows explorer
>
> since the network protocols are implemented as kio-slave and http/https
> is just another kio-slave there is no "offline use", if you don't want
> to connect to a remote ressource just don't type the URL

OK, thanks for the explanation.  The 'inconvenience' happens if I'm 
viewing a saved file that includes a link, but didn't want to reactivate 
it.  The solution is to stay awake, I suppose.