I loved Konqueror when it first came out as it was so user-friendly - in the days before Mozilla and Google really got going with their browsers. Then a few years ago, there was a note on the KDE Forums saying that development of Konqueror had come to a standstill and they would be developing Qupzilla under the name of Falkon instead. So I swapped to using Falkon which was OK but not as fully featured as Konqueror had been.
Meanwhile Konqueror had fallen so far behind as a web browser that I only retained it for file management - where it has some advantages over Dolphin. In December 2021 I was interested to see an update to Konqueror involving webengine and tried it out. It’s a bit rusty and there is the odd feature of a website - like this panel - which it cannot handle for some reason. But it has rendered all the other complex websites I have thrown at it without any problems.
I have always liked its handling of PDFs which is superior to that of any other browser and the shortcuts option seems to work more smoothly than the equivalent in Falkon. So I hope this is the start of something good for Konqueror.
I have never heard about this browser before. I’m lucky to find this thread because i’m searching for an alternative to the Mozilla and Konqueror look like a good option to try.
That’s interesting to hear. Back in the early 2000s Konqueror was my main browser for quite a while. I’ll never understand why the KDE project seemed to give up on it. I’ve been using gnome lately, and really like gnome’s epiphany browser (aka web). But maybe I’ll install KDE and see what Konqueror looks like these days.
It uses webkit which comes from the same stable but the version it uses doesn’t have all the features which you will find in Chrome, or even Falkon. I assume that, in due course, it will acquire more features.
If you have not already done so, then install “webenginepart”. That gives you the option of using it as the web engine in konqueror. It is based on chromium, and in my experience it is more robust than webkit.