I don't use Konqueror for many reasons.
But mostly because it renders some pages badly or it isn't supported.
Let's take a look at this site. Koqueror dosen't renders the ascii captcha correctly. Screenshot:

And there are other very popular sites that are not completely supportd (like GMail).
Which can be "fooled" to think Konqueror is some other browser. But user dosen't want to tweak the browser they just want to use it.
There are other options to consider.
(I know that there are other similar ideas to this, but I think that this tries to solve problem differently than others)

I'd like to see a searchbar in Konqueror like the one in firefox, at the bottom. I don't mean a "google search bar" but the one if you press Ctrl+F to search something within the page.

The bar needs less space than the current window, it is faster and more comfortable to search, and you don't have another window open.
And the main reason for me is: Firefox searches WHILE you are typing, you don't have to press enter.

Kmail does this in a very good way when searching for a mail, even adept_manager can do this.


If you like this idea, also look at my other ideas

I know this can be done by simple customization, BUT the default konqueror is not really focused on Web browsing and is not very simple:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2315/2191754391_c09b92fdfb.jpg

My proposal is this:

http://img371.imageshack.us/my.php?image=konquerorlayoutua3.png

1) Eliminate ''UP'' button now that konqueror is not being used for file managing is not needed anymore.

2) Eliminate ''Enter Key'' shaped button at the end of location bar. It is not needed either.

3) (MAYBE) Hide main toolbar and show it only when needed by clicking on the ''Menu Bar'' Button at the end of location bar.

4) LOCK by default all toolbars because it look very consistent.

5) This option does not exist except for Opera Web Browser but would be fine if ''Reload'' and ''Stop'' buttons were merged into one.

It would be nice to have Gecko Qt port as KPart in KDE.

Currently, for webdevelopers either GNOME nor KDE doesn't provide complete set of tools for website development (HTML, CSS(!!), JS, PHP, etc) - GNOME is lacking something like Quanta in Gtk, etc, and KDE is lacking only native Firefox support to test and debug/make css corrections with Firebug.

I think the best way to resolve this would be Gecko as KPart (if it would be possible to run Firebug on Konqueror then), so developer could test css/layout of website on three different rendering engines with one app.

People looking for stability of features and environment without having to upgrade every six months should stick to LTS, but it is simply not easy.

Ask getdeb, they are going to make hardy packages for just another 6 months, the same happens with some repos out there, and well, not being able to find packages for the version you are using is what ultimately makes you upgrade, I was fine with feisty for over a year, but after people stopped making packages for it, I had to upgrade, that is fine for feisty, it is not an LTS.

But for LTS I think people would expect to be able to use them for longer, and a lot of that depends on package/repo availability. If these things lasted three years it would be easier to stick with LTS versions.

I recently "discovered" Konqueror.
I found out that Konqueror is the best platform to develop internet sites. As you can simultaneously edit your site in embeded Kate, preview it with KHTML and also upload it to server.
So I would like that Kubuntu develops more add-ons that would make this and other things even more easy.
I don't demand to make it like Firefox, which has an for anything. I just want some of the most basic security add-ons and usability add-ons.

The add-ons that I personally would need, but there could be others:
Something like Web developer tool-bar for FF.
Or something like No-script and other security add-ons, OK some of this things Konqueror already has.
And "Tiny menu" add-on is also very useful, even though that there is option to "hide" menu, but menu is still very useful so it shouldn't be permanently hidden as it now is, but just more compact.
maybe even fake PHP server or something like that...
And those weather add-ons are also very useful...

If at least those add-ons to make web publishing even more easy would be good to developed, as it would be a good counterpart to MACs iLife, or whatever that thing is called.

There are already plug-ins (add-ons) available for Konqueror but more the better, and more should be added by default.
With this improvements Knqueror would be a logical default browser.
Until then the first thing I'll do after Kubuntu install will still be installation of Firefox.
Also I don't demand that this idea is done by Kubuntu devs, it could be done by us the users. I would do it myself, but I don't have the knowledge.
I bet that there are som Konqueror users that have the knowledge, so if you exists, just start developing add-ons that you need. And others will soon follow.
/maybe this idea is a bit to KDE specific, and I should propose on KDE site...

So, Konqueror frustrates a lot of people. Why?

It doesn't feel like a web browser, or specifically not firefox.

What can be done to change this?

TWO SETTINGS:

Default Search engine should be defaulted to "Google: I'm feeling lucky"

and the default policy for cookies should be to "accept all cookies"

Then the experience with konqueror becomes a wholly pleasant one.

I know anyone can change these settings on their own, but it is only now after YEARS of using linux that I've discovered this. I ditched Konqueror for Firefox right off the bat because I thought Konqueror was annoying and not really meant for Web Browsing.