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Re: forking konqueror ! - no need: Firefox
by Max on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @13:38

What's wrong with Firefox?

That's an awesome web-browser!!!

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Re: forking konqueror ! - no need: Firefox
by Grósz Dániel on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @14:51

Not KDE - looks different, starts slower and consumes more memory (due to not using shared KDE libs), cannot use kio slaves, cannot use kparts, cannot stort passwords in kwallet, doesn't open files with KDE's file associations etc.

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Re: forking konqueror ! - no need: Firefox
by Dan on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @16:16

It's a piece of bloated shit.

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Re: forking konqueror ! - no need: Firefox
by fred on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @21:02

Firefox is awesome in Windows. But Firefox in Linux is simply inferior compared to Firefox in Windows (major complaint: SLOW). I use Firefox in Vista, and in the same machine I use Linux - Debian, the same version of Firefox feels so slow and sluggish. Thats why I always use Konqueror/KHTML.

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Re: forking konqueror ! - no need: Firefox
by yves on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @00:42

You will be happy to see that Firefox 3 is a *lot* faster, in painting in general, and as well in page rendering.

I switched to the beta some weeks ago, and whenever I accidentally launched firefox2 instead of firefox3, it felt as if my browser had a 100kg steelball towed to it's feet and was crawling on all fours

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Re: forking konqueror ! - no need: Firefox
by fred on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @07:50

That would be good news! Because I usually need to have 1 or 2 firefox tabs to open gmail or other google ajax application (sad - even though gmail works with Konqueror user agent spoofing, it has few annoying issues).

But I already fall in love with Konqueror/KHTML :D

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Re: forking konqueror ! - no need: Firefox
by T. J. Brumfield on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @07:51

Firefox has branches for all kinds of options and operating systems. It had a QT branch ages ago, but it was abandoned. Personally, I'd love to see a QT 4 branch of Firefox that integrates well into KDE.

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Re: forking konqueror ! - no need: Firefox
by Grósz Dániel on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @12:34

Maybe a Gecko kpart would be more realistic.

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