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Hail the Konqueror

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Many KDE users tend to take the Konqueror Web browser for granted, but that's a mistake. Konqueror may not be able to replace Firefox as a Web browser for every site, but it does a lot more than just simple browsing.

About 95% of the sites that I visited look and feel exactly the same in Konqueror as they do in Firefox, but a significant number of "Web 2.0" sites do not work or have some missing functionality. On the Netflix site, for example, in Firefox, you'll see an additional information overlay when you hover the mouse over a movie thumbnail, but in Konqueror nothing happens. When using Konqueror with Gmail, you'll be redirected to the plain HTML view of the site -- which is adequate, but not quite as useful as the AJAXified version that works so well in Firefox. The Yahoo! homepage rejects Konqueror, suggesting that you "upgrade" to Internet Explorer, Firefox, or another supported browser, but if you set the browser identification to Firefox, Yahoo!'s home page, Yahoo! Mail, and My Yahoo! pages work just fine.

I've had no luck at all trying to use Konqueror with Google Calendar, Writely, Google Spreadsheets, Google Pages, the TinyMCE editor in WordPress, and a number of other online application sites. That's a hefty list of sites that don't work properly with Konqueror, but it's still only a small fraction of sites that I visit -- the vast majority of sites I've tested work just fine.

Given the number of sites that reject Konqueror, you might get the impression that Konqueror is less than standards-compliant. Actually, the reverse is true -- Konqueror is compliant with most, if not all, Web standards. Unlike Firefox and IE, Konqueror actually passes the Web Standards Project Acid2 test. Unfortunately, standards and actual practice tend to differ, so you may need to keep Firefox handy for a handful of sites.

Konqueror has one other drawback compared to Firefox: It lacks extensions. Konqueror does have extension support, but I've had little luck actually finding extensions for Konqueror. Since the browser isn't as widely used as Firefox, it doesn't seem like much effort is going into producing extensions.

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