Apple took KHTML and made it more usable for mainstream development and then opened Webkit up due to pressure from the FOSS community and now Webkit has begun to supplant KHTML for most usage scenarios. Konqueror uses KHTML which is what Webkit was originally based on (they do share code with each other) but Webkit is basically the more efficient and more widely used offspring of KHTML. Konqueror does not use Webkit at the moment and it will not gain that functionality until it is based on QT 4.4 and KDE 4.1. My clients are small fish compared to some.) Yeah, we’re still using Gecko, the *good* thing about FF.įirefox and its devs have a bad case of “singleuseritis”… which is not my problem anymore.įirefox needs an attitude adjustment if it wants to be a contender on big multiuser corporate servers. My users don’t understand enough about it to be happy. I am oh so happy with Epiphany for this environment. And the very first thing I chucked was Firefox. (I usually poo poo people who complain about the mostly fictional RPM Hell, but Epiphany is the exception!) Too big a mess to make sense to me as an admin. And believe me, getting it and its dependencies installed on a standard CentOS install is a huge mess. RH, in its infinite wisdom, removed Epiphany from their distribution of Gnome. For some years, I was running CentOS 4.x on this server.

And yes, if one is willing to babysit and micromanage its behavior, and is always ready to reapply the changes upon a new release, it can be tamed. Yep, all seventy simultaneous Firefox sessions say the same thing and dive in. It says “Oh look! 8GB of memory! I can cache all this stuff and cache a bunch of rendered pages too and make things faster!”. Each instance has an aggravating tendency to assume that it is the only program running. Firefox, especially 1.5+, is not much of a team player. I administer an XDMCP/NX server that serves up to 70 simultaneous desktops. Really, who’s idea was it anyway to decide on THAT for the default theme? I think they’re taking too many pointers from Microsoft / Internet Explorer when it comes to UI design. I’ll take BlueQute over Firefox 2’s OR Firefox 3’s theme, any day.

Sure, it’s theme-able, but I’d rather *never* see it, even if only to download and install a new theme. Ironically, I won’t have to deal with the Windows version’s atrocious theme, since in the same day (it was coincidental, really…) I decided to complete my move to Linux and convert all my Windows partitions to Linux / XFS, and gave my Windows CD to my sister. I also saw a shot of the Linux theme, which doesn’t seem to be changed much, and the Mac theme, which is a big step in the right direction (it finally looks native).

I just saw a screenshot of the latest Firefox 3 beta just a couple days ago and immediately went silent when I saw the abysmal new navigation icons.

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