Konqueror tips and tricks
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 14:07
If you are familar with KDE you know Konqueror. Konqueror used to be one of the finest file managers on the PC desktop – period. But now KDE has migrated toward a simpler, more user-friendly file manager (Dolphin) and pushed Konqueror to serve as a web-browser only. That does not mean Konqueror can not be used as a file manager. It can. In fact, Konqueror can do many things. From file management, to secure shell gui, to imap connections, and many more tricks. Konqueror is one of those Swiss Army Knife tools that many people over look. Well, we’re not going to overlook this outstanding tool.
In this article I am going to show you a few tips and tricks that you can apply to the Konqueror web browser to make your Konqueror (and KDE) experience even more flexible and powerful than it already is.
KIO Slaves
KDE Input/Output slaves allows Konqueror to take advantage of external applications making it far more usable. Depending on what kio_slave you want to use the input for Konqueror will be different. Let’s take a look at some of the more useful slaves.
Adobe flash for Konqueror ? will it make Konqueror best browser
Adobe flash for konqueror has been available for a few years now. And there are 64 bit version too. The installer for Kubuntu konqueror needs to have manual scan for plug-in ok and restart konqueror to work.
Once Adobe flash plug-in is used, many websites will all be compatible with codecs and active-x directory.
Whether Adobe will also do autoupdate for Konqueror, I don't know. Autoupdate will be a nice feature for konqueror if true.
Footnote:
Dillo 2.1.1(450kb) can use Adobe flash 10. So, for many tiny Linux using small and fast browser has the compatibility of Flash 10.