Rekonq: Konqueror Killer?
When the Maverick Meerkat, better known as Ubuntu 10.10, debuts in October, it will bring with it a new default browser for Kubuntu users in the form of rekonq. If you’re a KDE user dissatisfied with Konqueror and Firefox, here’s what you can look forward to next fall.
rekonq is a relatively new project aimed at creating a native KDE browser that addresses some of the perceived shortcomings in Konqueror, which has served as KDE’s main file browser–and sometime-file browser–for many years.
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So how well does rekonq fulfill the ambitions behind it? To get an idea, I installed rekonq version 0.4.95 from a Launchpad PPA and gave it a go.
Like Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari, rekonq is based on WebKit
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