Enhancing Konqueror

George Staikos staikos at kde.org
Fri Mar 17 19:12:35 GMT 2006


I think you may be pleased to hear that virtually everything in your list 
already exists in Konqueror. :-)

On Friday 17 March 2006 14:01, Charles A. Landemaine wrote:
> Hello, here's a list of features I suggest could be added to Konqueror:
>
>  - A Wand: Click a wand icon, and Konqueror auto-fills for you the
> form with your login and password and submits the form automatically
> (pretty neat)
>
>  - A Google/Wikipedia search field next to the location bar such as in
> Opera or Firefox.
>
>  - Make the .html handled by default by Konqueror so that when you
> click a link, the page doesn't load in Kate.
>
>  - A Session-saver: You can save the current session with the open
> tabs, and re-open these tabs later on. Also you can auto-save current
> session on exit so that if you close Konqueror and re-open it, you
> don't loose the last pages you visited
>
>  - Use more cache memory: When you hit "Back" or "Forward", Konqueror
> doesn't need to reload the pages. Just reload from cache, and it
> becomes as fast as Opera.
>
>  - Close tab button should be on the tab (on the right), and not in
> the corner, it's more convenient
>
>  - Web site icon should be on the tab on the right
>
>  - New tab button
>
>  - Open new windows in new tabs
>
>  - Default smart pop up blocker
>
>  - Authorized pop ups open in new window
>
>  - Home URL should be blank
>
>  - Mouse gestures like Opera (I'm missing them so much)
>
>  - Activate previous used tab when closing the current tab
>
>  - Disable "Focus Window" in JS
>
>  - Web shortcuts: add 'g' for Google, add also 'pbi' to look for
> applications on the PBIDir
>
>  - Use cache whenever possible
>
>  - Dock the download manager into Konqueror (having the download
> manager poping up is extremely annoying).
>
>  - Toggle on/off style-sheet for current page
>
>  - Switch user-agent for current page (for web sites that reject Konqueror)
>
>  - Support for AJAX version of Gmail:
> http://mail.google.com/mail/?nocheckbrowser
>
>
> Thank you.

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George Staikos
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