Konqueror gives me the pip. It tries to be too intelligent for it's own good. And too much artificial intelligence is artificial malevolence. So I use firebird for most of my browsing, and set it as the default app for HTML. But, sometimes I need a second browser, because firebird isn't coping or is already loaded with a cookie and I want to try something different. Konqueror is no good, it acts like a sulky child. Click on a link and it says, "I'm not your HTML app, do you want me to open this with Firebird or save it?" No button to say, "Just do it, you stupid heap of pedantic logic, you're a browser, it's HTML, display it!" Anyone know a way around this? Or should I write Konqueror off entirely? michaelj -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166
On Friday 22 October 2004 03:17, Michael James wrote:
Konqueror gives me the pip. It tries to be too intelligent for it's own good. And too much artificial intelligence is artificial malevolence.
So I use firebird for most of my browsing, and set it as the default app for HTML.
I use both Konq and Firefox (which is what you meant, unless you're running something v. old, in which case try more modern versions?), often concurrently, did not tell Firefox to be the default app, and neither interferes with the other in any way. Konqueror navigates quite normally whether Firefox is running or not HTH Fergus
But, sometimes I need a second browser, because firebird isn't coping or is already loaded with a cookie and I want to try something different.
Konqueror is no good, it acts like a sulky child. Click on a link and it says, "I'm not your HTML app, do you want me to open this with Firebird or save it?"
No button to say, "Just do it, you stupid heap of pedantic logic, you're a browser, it's HTML, display it!"
Anyone know a way around this? Or should I write Konqueror off entirely?
michaelj
-- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166
-- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: 0161 834 7961 Fax: 0161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk
On Fri 22 October 2004 04:17, Michael James wrote:
Konqueror gives me the pip. It tries to be too intelligent for it's own good. And too much artificial intelligence is artificial malevolence.
So I use firebird for most of my browsing, and set it as the default app for HTML.
But, sometimes I need a second browser, because firebird isn't coping or is already loaded with a cookie and I want to try something different.
Konqueror is no good, it acts like a sulky child. Click on a link and it says, "I'm not your HTML app, do you want me to open this with Firebird or save it?"
No button to say, "Just do it, you stupid heap of pedantic logic, you're a browser, it's HTML, display it!"
Anyone know a way around this? Or should I write Konqueror off entirely?
I use both Konq and Firefox (not Firebird, which is ancient) and they "behave" themselves perfectly together. You say you have Firebird as the default HTML browser and when you click on a link Konqueror won't open it, but this is correct behaviour, or..? Maybe it would be better not to anthropomorphise computers and software? They simply do what they are told to do.... jal -- GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E
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