konqueror like browser without the nonsense?
Thu, 2006-10-05 10:08
I like konqueror as a webbrowser, it is fast and renders most pages I visit well. What I don't like is that starting it when not using KDE takes a quite long time, and also combining a filemanager and a webbrowser in one program seems like a bad idea for security.
So does anyone know of a browser that uses the same html renderer as konqueror, but doesn't try to be anything else than a webbrowser and doesn't need to start half of KDE to run?
Try these ones. However both are quite old
I think the Mac OS X browser is also based on KHTML, not sure if it's free though (not sure if KHTML is GPL or LGPL).
ABrowse (for Syllable OS) also is KHTML based... but for the wrong operating system :/
Yes Whistler, WebCore (Safari's rendering engine) is based on KHTML. However Safari is not free. KHTML is under the GLGPL.
It could be possible for someone to start working on a GTK KHTML based browser.. not that I volonteer.
A plain QT (no KDE dependencies) KHTML browser would do the trick too.
While it's not KHTML based, I love using Epiphany. It's GTK, renders using the Gecko engine, and truly is loads faster than Firefox. Have you given this a try at all?
One of my reasons for using something KHTML based is that it's not Gecko (with the recent fuss about a cracker "holding on to 30 vulnerabilities", probably not true but it reminds me it's good to always have a replacement ready for software that accesses the internet).