Being a browser integrated with desktop and other programs, and able to pull more tasks than just web browsing gives Konqueror an advantage. WebKit is a fork o

Being a browser integrated with desktop and other programs, and able to pull more tasks than just web browsing gives Konqueror an advantage. WebKit is a fork of KHTML, the teams still exchange changesets; take it as sign of maturity of Konqueror. Aside of being a browser, Konqueror is a versatile tool for working with both local and remote files in variety of ways. It uses KParts technology to seamlessly integrate whole engines from several other KDE application, adapting to various tasks without it becoming bloated. The KParts approach seems to me to be more versatile than FX's plugins. After several years working with Konqueror 3.x and 4.x series, I find it more comfortable than Firefox for daily use. Also its default font suite fits me much better than Firefox's. In my experience, if you are using KDE, it starts up much faster than Firefox. Last but not least, a model with just two major competitors: IE and FX would lead to stagnation and poor standard conformance, and in a longer run, to market domination by one of them. Which happen once with IE and NN, didn't do much good for the net. We want steady pressure from Opera, Konqueror and Safari at least to keep up the progress.