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The Conkeror Web Browser Conquers Small Screens

Issue 183

From Issue #183
July 2009

Jul 01, 2009  By David A. Harding
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Small screen? Crummy touchpad? Not a problem for Conkeror.

Resources

Conkeror Home Page and Wiki: conkeror.org

Download Conkeror Snapshot: repo.or.cz/w/conkeror.git?a=snapshot;h=master;sf=tgz

Download Mozilla XULRunner: releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/1.9.0.1/runtimes

David A. Harding lives in New Jersey and works as a freelance technology writer. He has a Linux Professional Institute system administration certification and can often be found organizing local GNU/Linux events.

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If you want a variation on

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 06/28/2009 - 13:09.

If you want a variation on Conkeror, you can also try Vonkeror, which is a forked project of Conkeror with many different features, including gopher supporting.

vi keybindings

CyberBob's picture
Submitted by CyberBob (not verified) on Mon, 06/22/2009 - 16:09.

Conkeror is emacs-ified by default. But, if you are a vi user you can just change the keybindings. I did, and now use Conkeror with vi-like j/k keybindings for scrolling up and down, and other such customizations. I mention this option as I find that it's a smaller/more streamlined solution than using Vimperator with Firefox.

Conkeror is also available on Arch

Matt's picture
Submitted by Matt (not verified) on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 09:28.

I second the recommendation of vimperator if you are a vi user. It gets rid of the menu bars in Firefox and is driven entirely from the keyboard.

New name!!!

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 12:14.

This sounds great. Any idea how well it works on eee PCs? I'll try it out later with the netbook desktop. BUT, get a new name! Why confuse this with Konqueror, when it's a Firefox derivative? That doesn't make sense. Develop a name better suited to the product.

I've been looking for something like this

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 10:28.

Very interesting, I have kinda been looking for a better browser for my AAO, now I have found one. What's more is that it supports Windows, too (I dual-boot, yes shame on me, though windows only has like a 30GB partition and Linux has closer to 60GB).

Get a different name.

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Submitted by Jacob (not verified) on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 09:49.

If it's good - why be lazy?

Get a decent name - no need for kanckeroar.

Good thing it doesn't sound

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 01:33.

Good thing it doesn't sound like Konqueror. We wouldn't want people to be confused...

Re:

x33a's picture
Submitted by x33a (not verified) on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 21:14.

David, since you are a vi user, you should definitely check out vimperator. it's an add on for firefox, and it also lets us browse the web using the keyboard only.

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