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Re:Chrome Overtakes Firefox Globally for First Time by MikeCapone on Thursday December 01, 2011 @12:58PM (#3300659)
I actually liked Konqueror, but it might have been a later version than what you had.
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Re:Chrome Overtakes Firefox Globally for First Time by guard-of-terra on Thursday December 01, 2011 @02:29PM (#3301069)
Konqueror did a lot of things right which still aren't by any other browser.

E.g. it had okayish system integration while other browsers have it awful. It displayed site favicons in task panel, instead of boasting its own. It was a birthplace of webkit.

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Re:Chrome Overtakes Firefox Globally for First Time by onedognight on Thursday December 01, 2011 @04:27PM (#3301454)
> Konqueror did a lot of things right which still aren't by any other browser.

More importantly they did something right which is in most other browsers, their renderer!

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Re:Chrome Overtakes Firefox Globally for First Time by DanielRibeiro on Thursday December 01, 2011 @03:10PM (#3301201)
Probably. At the time, the university machines had 256 Ram (it was before Gmail), and konqueror managed to hog a lot of its memory. Firefox would ocupy 30 MB Ram with 5 tabs, so it made things a lot smoother.
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