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WebKit Gives Konqueror a Speed Boost (Past Firefox)

Posted by timothy on from the fightin'-words-in-a-kit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We always knew that WebKit is going to make Konqueror fast; but how much faster? Today we test that by putting Konqueror with KHTML through the SunSpider JavaScript Test and the then do the same with WebKit. To get an idea of how fast they are compared to other browsers, we also decided to put Firefox 4.0 Beta 2 through the tests."

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  1. What the frak is Konqueror? by commodore64_love · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I've never eve heard of it, and I've tried a lot of different browsers including text-only and "low memory" browsers.

    "Konqueror came with the version 2 of KDE, released on October 23, 2000.[5] It replaces its predecessor, KFM (KDE file manager).[6] With the release of KDE4, Konqueror was replaced as a file manager by Dolphin..... The name "Konqueror" is a reference to the two primary competitors at the time of the browser's first release: "first comes the Navigator, then Explorer, and then the Konqueror."

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