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From: M Daniel R M <4.magarzo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problems with the web browsers
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:13:49
Message-Id: 1250547317.14051.62.camel@mdel
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] problems with the web browsers by Alan McKinnon
1 On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 20:01 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Sunday 16 August 2009 18:40:12 M Daniel R M wrote:
3 > > Konqueror: very stable indeed, but it couldn't be at another way since
4 > > it's a key piece of the KDE environment... The problem comes when I want
5 > > to fill in forms (you know... web pages for registering, etc.). It stops
6 > > many times without giving us an alert message or some kind of
7 > > explanation, so you have to deduce that the problem is not from the
8 > > website, but the browser instead.
9 > >
10 > > I don't know whether problems come from java or whatever..., I've
11 > > checked my konqueror preferences and I'd bet they are all OK..
12 >
13 > javascript support in konqueror sucks.
14 >
15
16 I always thought that here it isn't my fault (that is, incomplete
17 installs and so on..)
18
19 > For everything else it's actually OK. One of these days it will use webkit as
20 > the backend and then things might improve. Until then, I'm afraid you are SOL.
21 >
22
23 ASAP, please!
24
25 I think konqueror lacks of such abilities, and they are practically
26 essential nowadays, but apart from that..., other capabilities are fine
27 IMHO (speed, stability, ...). Ops! In addition, I realize now that
28 sometimes konqueror renders (shows) some webpages badly (you know,
29 things placed in the frame where they shouldn't, etc.)
30
31 Regards,
32
33 Daniel R. Magarzo