Konqueror is a wonderful open source web browser with HTML 4.01 compliance, a file manager and a file viewer application bundled in a single package. It uses a HTML rendering engine called KHTML which is also used by Safari Apple webbrowser. It is designed as a core part of K-Desktop Environment, it is licensed and distributed under the GNU General Public License.
Konqueror uses JavaScripts, java applets, CSS, SSL and many more relevant open standards making it a perfect application for all webmanster.
One of the most important feature of Konqueror browser is that it can be integrated with several custom search services, you can accessed them by entering the abbreviation code for the required service to get executed. ( eg :- you can have gg for getting Google.com followed by search term ) you have total freedom for adding custom search services.
Konqueror can also be used for browsing local directory hierarchy, you can either enter location for the folder you want to access in the address bar, or by just selecting items in the file browser window.
You can browse files/directories in different views, you can also play with files and can executed, view, copy-paste, move-delete them. You can directly open and can execute shell commands using embedded version of Konsole
You can download conqueror using following link : konqueror.org/download/
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This post was written by admin on November 13, 2008
