I’m afraid this is by design, but I’ll post it nevertheless, maybe someone can help me find a workaround.
It’s about Konqueror: I like it so much I never use any other browser (you guessed it, I’m a KDE user - v3.5.9 to be precise). I visit Google a hundred times a day, so I’ve set up my Google preferences to open all search results, when clicked, in a new window. That way, I can set up Konqueror to open new tabs instead of new windows, which allows me to have the Google search list and all the clicked pages/links displayed in the same Konqueror window. It’s great for productivity – also, when I’m through with one search, I just close one Konqueror instance and thus close the search results and all the related tabs with one click.
Alas, I’ve found out that there is a custom-tailored “identification” in the Konqueror options which is pre-set to identify Konqueror to Google as some Mac browser. Apparently, this false identification breaks my Google settings. Thus, whenever I click on a Google search result, the link gets opened in the same window (or tab), making me lose my search results list and forcing me to click the “Back” button if I want to see it again. Of course, by doing that, I now lose the linked page>:).
I find this extremely annoying. I’ve tried to disable browser identification in the Konqueror settings, but many sites I visit won’t work with a non-identified browser… Does anybody else have this problem? If yes, what did you do to solve it? I wonder why did the Konqueror developers do this…
You say that you tried to disable browser identification completely.
But did you try to configure the browser indentification for google.com (or your local google.<id>) to the one you think will work OK?
The fact is … I’m too chicken to do that. I don’t know how to backup Konqueror’s settings and I’m too afraid I might break something, lose some functionality or something like that if I try to change that setting.
I thought of editing just the name google.com to foogle.com but that can’t be done. But you’re right – I’ll copy the setting and paste it somewhere in a backup text file and then delete the google entry altogether and see how it goes…
First I have a translated Konqueror, so I may use different wording then you see while I try to translate back into english.
I just mean the menu item Configuration of Konqueror > Configure Konqueror.
Then in the new window: Browser identification. Enter your thing there and write down what you did, so you can revert. Not a big prblem I think :\
Good suggestion. I finally summed up my courage and did just that. It didn’t break anything and I actually got rid of the cookie problem.
Good suggestion. I finally summed up my courage and did just that. It
didn’t break anything and I actually got rid of the cookie problem.
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