which webbrowser is Mageia using?

Shadowmeph · 02-12-2014, 02:18 PM

I am wondering which web browser mageia is using , I know it has firefox installed but there is a web browser called "Web browser" it seems like a type of Mozilla, if it is I am wondering if there is a way to add some addins that fire fox uses to it? the reason being is that I kind of like this browser .

frankbell · 02-12-2014, 08:46 PM

If you are using Mageia with KDE, the other web browser might well be KDE's Konqueror. Help-->About should tell you more. If it is, to the best of my knowledge, Firefox plugins do not work with Konqueror.

Shadowmeph · 02-13-2014, 01:01 PM

I am usinggnome and this browser doesn't have any information at all in the preferences it has no about or any other type information, if I right click I see minimize maximize .

frankbell · 02-13-2014, 08:23 PM

Ephiphany at least used to be the default Gnome browser.

Check the menu settings. In KDE, at least, you can change the menu to show "application names" instead of "application type."

frankbell · 02-15-2014, 11:33 AM

I had a thought this morning. You could find out what the browser is by using ps.

With the application not running, run ps -A and pipe the output to a file:

Code:

ps -A > somefile.txt

Then start the browser and do the same thing using a different file name.

Then you could compare the two files in a text editor or by using something like diff or meld. The name of the browser application should appear in the second file and not in the first.

Code:

diff somefile.txt someotherfile.txt

cowlitzron · 03-04-2014, 04:33 PM

The browser called "Web" is shipped with Mageia GNOME along with Firefox. This browser was named Epiphany prior to GNOME 3.4 and still has "Epiphany" as the package name in Mageia and many other distros.