"Many KDE users tend to take the Konqueror Web browser for granted, but that's a mistake. Konqueror may not be able to replace Firefox as a Web browser for every site, but it does a lot more than just simple browsing."
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Member since:2005-07-11
And this is the beauty of KDE. There may be a plethora of applications available in a KDE release, but it's not really bloated when you consider how much code is reused via KIO slave, KParts, DCOP, and so on.
Everyone complains that Konqueror is bloated because it it's a web browser, PDF viewer, text viewer/editor, file manager, music player, video player, and more ...... except that Konqueror is actually none of those. 
It just loads KParts (KHTML, KATE, KPDF, KMPlayer, etc) as needed. The same KParts that a bunch of other apps use for the same purpose.
People go on and on about how great and wonderful Firefox extensions are. What they don't realise is that KParts -> KDE is the same as extensions -> FF. There's a KPart or KIO slave for just about everything out there, and all the KDE apps can use them all.
Now, if that isn't the very definition of code reuse and proper use of frameworks, then I don't know what
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2005-11-13
I think one misunderstanding that people have expressed and has been somewhat corrected here is that of bloat.
I would like to explicitly add that Konq is NOT bloated. Konq is just a thin shell that can load various plugins (kparts) when needed. Konqueror itself takes up very little in terms of resources and can embed all sorts of functionality on demand to preview almost anything in an integrated format.
Personally I love the ability to mix my browser and my file manager. I also really love the ability to open a pdf directly in a new tab like any other document so that I can think about it as a document rather then a format, all without having to use the ram when I am not reading pdfs.
And if you want to open your documents in a separate app, it is easy to change and with no ram lost
I also have only very rarely come across sites that don't work in Konq.
Seth