Why konqueror was abandoned?

zeebra · 11-01-2022, 06:05 AM

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Originally Posted by rkelsen

I don't disagree with you. Particularly now that Flash is finally dead, and websites are being built on open standards.

I'm kind of sick and tired of Firefox sometimes, and I'm not going to use a corporate browser. So I gave Konqueror a real try some time back, and it is already a good lightweight browser. But some of those "not working" features (mainly adblocker) and non-maintained features (mainly javascript controls) is a killer if you want to use it as a main browser. You have to do about 5 menues/clicks into javascripts control to enable a single javascript domain, and you can't have that window open while browsing (it's "always on top" and blocks other activity)...

KHTML really is dead, and the browser works terrible with it, and they already announced they will remove KHTML and anything to do with it in KDE, so.. QT Webengine is a QT project stripped version of chromium webengine, the one used in chrome. It has good compatibility, and it's fast, and far removed from anything to do with google, so I deem it acceptable personally.

It really does work well already, and it is fast and lightweight. My actual hope is that they would turn it into a geek browser, fix those few things, and then work on integrating some well known features from Firefox addons. There are tons to pick from, but only a few cool ones could really make the difference in making Konqueror attractive. Some media controls and download manager features and such things. Konqueror used to be feature clever, and I'm sure they could do it again.

Jason_25 · 11-01-2022, 09:29 AM

It would be good to have the web browsing feature of Konqueror upgraded. I always use it for SMB transfers with smb://ipaddress. Also as a backup file browser if Dolphin is having a problem. Very convenient.

Mike_Walsh · 11-01-2022, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by zeebra

Actually, with very "little" effort, Konqueror could become a very good lightweight modern web browser. It already is actually, but some features are missing/non-functional, and it seems they are not being fixed.

In these days, with bloated feature rich "browsers" (online software suite) like Firefox, an alternative like that could offer some relief.

TBH, for MY money, the sweetest Qt-based web-browser I ever came across was.....QtWeb.

Light, fast, for its time it had an acceptable level of performance that was the equal of, if not better than, any of the "big boys" (Chrome, Firefox, etc). I used it for a long time, several years ago, on a P4-powered Dell laptop with just 512 MB of RAM. It's a real shame its developer abandoned it, some 7 or 8 years ago; even today, you can still obtain it, though now it has the bloat of Chromium on top of its QtWebEngine core, and has been redesigned primarily for use with embedded applications.

For the stated reason alone, I wouldn't entertain it any longer.

Mike.