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Siberian Fox · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:04 pm Post subject: Konqueror or Firefox

Which of these to do you guys like best? They will both be included in the KDE version (actually Dolphin will lol), but which do you guys use most often?

SamFisher47 · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:10 pm Post subject:

I use Firefox just because of the massive amount of plugins and themes, etc. We should also consider alternatives such as Swiftweasel, Iceweasel, Swiftfox, etc!
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Siberian Fox · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:14 pm Post subject:

Never heard of those, but it is a good idea to offer alternative ones. We should include them as optional installations.

SamFisher47 · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:16 pm Post subject:

Yes, well they are pretty much just optimised builds of Firefox, for different CPUs, etc. So we should include Swiftweasel in a 64-bit build. I think Iceweasel aims to only include free plugins or something, and it removes the Firefox-branded artwork.
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Davmont · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:44 am Post subject:

SamFisher47 · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject:

Interesting Davmont. I was personally leaning towards Firefox or one of its child projects for KDE and Gnome just because many users are familiar with it, but if Konqueror is better/easier/more usable, then it should be default for the KDE version
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Siberian Fox · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:34 pm Post subject:

Konquerer is default in all distros (because it is a file manager), but Firefox is the default web browser. Also, just noted: Dolphin will replace Konquerer in KDE 4, so we will have to compare that to Firefox when the time comes.

SamFisher47 · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:40 pm Post subject:

Yep, sounds good. I haven't used KDE much so I'll probably trial it once KDE 4 is released Razz

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master_kernel · Moderator Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 66

I use Firefox, and when I used to use KDE, I used Konqueror. These should be fine in the distribution. Now comes the question of SwiftWeasel (SwiftFox now has a bad reputation; they were not concerned about open source): should it at least be in the repositories?

SamFisher47 · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:04 pm Post subject:

I think so, I use it on an everyday basis under Ubuntu on my 64-bit desktop computer. I use Firefox on the 32-bit one though. Maybe we should include Swiftweasel for the 64-bit build, just because it is optimised?
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Scott · Newbie Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 9

Dolphin is a file manager only. It isn't a web browser. Konqueror will still be present in KDE 4 as both a file manager and web browser.

Johan · Newbie Joined: 25 Nov 2007 Posts: 7 Location: Netherlands

I go for Iceweasel/Firefox/Opera

Davmont · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:14 am Post subject:

konqueror/firefox/opera

i use konqueror as i use kde and use kget to manage my downloads...

but iceweasel/firefox is nice because extensions and all that stuff...
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