Jerome Yuzyk posted on Thu, 05 May 2011 13:07:31 -0600 as excerpted: > Yes, I was getting a bit crabby when I asked that. There does seem to be > progress and Konq is still my default browser after all these years and > other alternatives. WebKit seems to be (more) useful for eBay now so > that's a positive benchmark for me.
I've been earnestly hoping that kde gets on the webkit bandwagon and that all the major webkit players (so kde/qt/apple/google, at least) decide on a common extension format. IMO, that's the most effective way to match firefox's lead in the extensions department, the biggest reason I use firefox these days. konqueror remains by default browser as well, but more and more frequently, when browsing anything other than my normal sites, I find myself turning to firefox, because I keep scripting off by default and there's simply no match for its no-script extension. Trying to work with konqueror's script-permissions facility is an exercise in frustration, by comparison, in particular because there's no way other than digging it out of the page source directly, to see what sites other than the obvious, the site one is actually visiting, are asking to run scripts. But it's simply unrealistic to expect konqueror alone to come up with the same level of tools available as firefox extensions, because the community is so much smaller. The only way it could really happen, would be (1) if konqueror was firefox extension compatible -- a serious technical problem since that would require supporting firefox's chrome GUI extensions as well, so that's unrealistic as well, or (2), if konqueror and chrome/ chromium and safari and ... can come up with a common webkit extension format that's easy for all webkit based browsers to support. That should be at least technically possible, but unfortunately, I've seen absolutely no hints of any effort to that end, politically. Which unfortunately likely means that one of these years, I'll end up switching to either firefox, or possibly chromium, if it develops a similarly healthy extension community. (I've not tried it yet, but read that it's reasonably extendable, and has a good start.) But there's plenty of time as I spend most of my time on sites, many of which are Linux or general tech sites and thus should be reasonably aware of the alternative browsers out there, that I long ago configured in konqueoror, and I can and do just "open in firefox" when I end up visiting some other site that has scripting that's not yet configured to my liking. Privoxy is both a help and a hassle in this regard, as I can and do sometimes write custom site-specific filters (that unlike greasemonkey scripts or in-browser ad-blockers are NOT browser specific), but at the same time, when there are problems, I have privoxy to worry about as another potential cause of the problems, not least because I have a fairly invasive set of filters designed to enforce my "reverse" color preference (light text on a dark background) while still preserving the site's general color ideas (the filters simply, or not so simply actually, darken the background and lighten the text, while trying to keep general color tones, so dark red text designed to contrast well with a white background becomes bright red text to contrast well with a black background, for instance), and those filters while honed over the years to work /reasonably/ well every once in awhile go to work on a site with a new color specifying trick up its sleeve that the filter might not work correctly on, so in that regard, privoxy is a hassle as well. Tho given that I do NOT like light backgrounds, it's also a lifesaver on a default- white-background web that would otherwise be making my eyes bleed! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
