Re: KDE standard browser
On 11/07/16 15:01, Frank Mehnert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Debian/Sid and have all packages more or less up-to-date.
Thanks
> to the Debian KDE team for their hard work in keeping KDE on Debian
up-to-date
> and to several volunteers on this list (Martin and others) for
providing many
> useful information! At the moment I'm quite satisfied with the
quality of my
> KDE system.
>
> I use two Internet browsers: One browser for doing quick tasks like
asking
> Google, browsing some repositories News sites. And of course Firefox as
> fallback if the web site does complicated things. I don't want to use
> Firefox as default browser because it's too heavy and takes a 2-3 seconds
> to start up even if the system activity calmed down (8GB RAM, Sandy
Bridge,
> SSD).
>
> My favourite browser was konqueror. It worked quite well with the WebKit
> rendering engine. But the qualitiy did not improve and lately I
experienced
> hangs under regular conditions. Looking for a new lightweight browser
on KDE
> I stumbled over QupZilla. AFAIK it uses WebKit and works pretty well.
Ditto to all of the above.
> There
> are some tiny issues, for example when using QupZilla as standard browser
> and clicking on a URL in another application, the new URL is always
opened
> as new Tab of an existing browser instance -- not what I want.
I think this is already covered. From --help:
-nt or --new-tab open new tab
-nw or --new-window open new window
...
-ct=URL or --current-tab=URL open URL in current tab
-ow=URL or --open-window=URL open URL in new window
> I wonder if there are other suggestions for a lightweight browser on
KDE. I've
> seen that konqueror has got some updates but there is no active
maintainer.
Rekonq - seems to be going the same way as Konqueror.
Arora - IMO a bit /too/ basic for daily use.
alexd
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