Moses IzumiApr 13
#askfedi
Does anyone here actually use Konqueror? (KDE's own browser)

Building a full-blown file manager into the web browser might actually come in handy, as a way of keeping my folders and websites within the same window.

This desire mostly comes down to me finding Firefox/Librewolf's tab groups and vertical tabs incredibly useful as a way of organizing stuff (if Konqueror has a userbase, it follows that these have been incorporated as a plugin).

#lazyweb
Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 

@moses_izumi

I never use it because I don't know how well maintained the codebase is, and unfortunately, in 2026, a web browser isn't something you just use willy-nilly. The web is a ruddy minefield.

I don't know if it's even #KHTML-based anymore, or just yet another wrapper around QtWeb (probably not remembering the name right) a.k.a. Blink.

Having the file manager and web browser be the same thing is a very early 2000s idea ;) (think earlyish versions of Internet Explorer)

Apr 13 at 1:11pmWeb
Show threadMoses IzumiApr 13
@rl_dane
it's probably just current Webkit wrapped a GUI from 2000, but I've always been weary of the security thing.
it even lets you pick Okular (KDE's PDF reader) as the backend, if you want to scare a cybersecurity pro.
(I don't know how hardened it is: the common trick to parsing PDFs safely seems to be turning the sucker into a bitmap)
Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 Apr 13

@moses_izumi

I doubt it's WebKit, as it's been deprecated and unmaintained from Qt. If they're still using WebKit, it's an old version, and less secure than KHTML.

The secure way of reading PDFs is to render them as bitmaps in a vm or sandbox, but that's a horrible, horrible thing to do to a PDF. XD

I still remember struggling to read PDFs on my Pentium 90 at work. They were all bitmaps because the SOP for creating PDFs back then was to write them in Word, print them out, and scan them at the scanner, which emailed you a PDF.

I was fit to be tied. XD

Show threadMoses IzumiApr 13
@rl_dane
>when the security and usability implications of using a Mozilla/Chromium plugin as the primary filemanager (i.e borked drag&drop support) are still less dire than the risk of getting Konquered