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Comment by walrus01 | Hacker News Reader

In its prime, Konqueror (khtml) was excellent.

True. I still miss that I could search via toolbar, and then search through the resulting pages with the buttons for each word I entered... Pure genius.

I also preferred Konqueror to Dolphin as the file manager.

Konqueror can do everything! The only all-in-one application I actually like (maybe excepts Emacs).

God how I miss konqueror from kde3.

Dolphin is... Utter crap.

KDE3 had this crazy thing, Kioslaves. You open a remote host via SSH using konqueror, open a remote file as if it was locally available, and KDE would somehow juggle sync-on-save. It was super awesome when editing files on remote ftp servers (you know, phone and stuff).

KDE still has Kioslaves.

For each their own, I suppose. I love Dolphin, and think it's one of the better graphical apps in the whole Linux landscape, so your "utter crap" comment comes across just as sad and bitter.

Didn't dolphin work with kio slaves too?

It goes great length towards not having address bar or anything to type them in.

I miss the text of the tabs turning blue, letting you know the page is completely loaded, although this was probably more important on dial up. These day chrome does even render until you switch to the tab, causing a noticeable delay.

It's still the best browser going. Things like integrated wikipedia lookup - so simple but no other browser has ever added it.

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