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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Is Konqueror still a live project?
From:       Wolfgang Mader <Wolfgang_Mader () brain-frog ! de>
Date:       2014-03-31 12:25:00
Message-ID: 1921864.mcidqnZyjW () discus
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On Monday 31 March 2014 15:13:22 Josh Liberty wrote:
> On , Roney Gomes wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Ian Wadham <iandw.au@gmail.com>
> > 
> > wrote:
> >> A subsidiary question. What replaces Konqueror now? Dolphin replaces
> >> the
> >> file manager functionality, but what is the "official" supported KDE
> >> browser?
> > 
> > I guess it is Rekonq.
> 
> Why does the web browser seem to be such a low priority in the KDE
> project?
> I mean, there isn't even an official browser, and the one closest to
> being official, has a website which looks like this:
> http://rekonq.kde.org/
> It's not just the website, of course. Rekonq seems to be lacking in many
> areas - it is nowhere near being a real alternative to Firefox, Chrome,
> or even epiphany, qupzilla, and a bunch more.
> 
> It seems that there's no real focus on the web browser, as opposed to
> areas such as PIM, IM, and a whole bunch of other things.
> 
> I'm not trying to bash anyone, I'm just really wondering about that. Is
> rekonq good enough for most KDE users (I find that hard to believe)? Is
> everyone just using Firefox/Chrome?

Here is a almost happy rekonq user. I use rekonq for my everyday needs. Some 
small announces are present, but nothing that would want me make switch to 
firefox, mostly due to the kwallet-integration. (Now that I think about, I 
believe there is kwallet-integration for firefox, but I am not sure.)

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