On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> wrote:
Roger Luedecke said the following on 07/03/2011 09:22 PM:
however alot of people seem thoroughly hung up on Firefox.
For me, the issue isn't the rendering engine that is Firefox, but the addins.
* Addblock * Noscript * Web Developer * Dictionary/Spellchecker
There are also niceties
* Password tools, not just management but ones to make them visible on screen * Download management * "Its all text" which allows me to edit forms using VIM or Kate
There are others, and I suspect that beyond the first two I mentioned tastes will change, but the real power of Firefox, the real advantage for most user, like in this library of add-ins. Rendering speed may be a good thing for technical people or for magazines to write about, but its these 'luxuries' that sell.
Rekonq has built-in adblock, so I would say it is better than firefox in that regard. Spell checking is needed at the QtWebkit level, and is currently being implemented (I don't know when it is expected, though). Manually loading plugins (like flash) is built into rekonq, but not the manual javascript blocking features from noscript. One huge disadvantage of rekonq I forgot to mention, which may very well be a deal-breaker, is that it cannot handle multiple logins for a single web page. So for instance if you have multiple gmail accounts, it can't handle that. This isn't something that can be fixed in rekonq, either, it is a limitation in KDE's wallet manager kwallet. It doesn't appear that it was fixed in 4.7, so that means it will be KDE 4.8 at the earliest until this is fixed. -Todd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org