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Konqueror was always the only sensible choice, the only browser built from the ground up as open-source, and still the best I've ever used.
by lmm 2y ago
Konqueror was always the only sensible choice, the only browser built from the ground up as open-source, and still the best I've ever used.
- jraph 2y agoKonqueror is unfortunately not an option anymore when it comes to having an alternative to the big web engines, as it relies on Blink or WebKit now.
- extraduder_ire 2y agoKonqueror has been written in webkit since back when it was called KHTML. It's where apple got the original source code to make Safari.
- jraph 2y agoThe KDE folks did some impressive work back then. That the world basically runs on derivatives is quite the achievement. But you can't say anymore that Konqueror is an alternative to big tech. I wish we still had a live khtml developed by KDE today but we don't. We don't have any non big tech alternative today. Firefox is funded by Google. There's hope with servo and ladybug. Netsurf seemed like a very nice codebase but somehow it seems to remain small and too limited for most uses.
- rpgbr 2y agoKonqueror isn’t the main KDE browser anymore. It’s Falkon, and both use QtWebEngine, which is based on Chromium. KHTML is dead AFAIK.