Konqueror vs Firefox

David Boles dgboles at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 10:50:02 UTC 2008


Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED <m_d_berger_1900 <at> yahoo.com> writes:
>> On my FC7 and FC8 boxes, I have both Konqueror and
>> Firefox. Which should I use? Why?
> 
> Konqueror. It:
> * loads much faster,
> * integrates better into the KDE desktop (uses KDE icons and widget style, 
> KWallet etc.),
> * doesn't require extensions for functionality like ad blocking,
> * is more standards-compliant (passes the Acid2 test, Firefox 2 fails it, only 
> Firefox 3 will pass it).


In all honesty there is nothing 'wrong' with Konqueror at all. It works in
KDE just like Explorer works in Windows.

I have not used KDE for years and things do change but I can recall places
that Konqueror, could not, would not, go that Firefox/Netscape/Mozilla
went with no problems.
-- 


   David





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