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51-552: The name "Konqueror" references the two primary competitors at the time of the browser's first release: "first comes the Navigator , then Explorer , and then the Konqueror". It also follows the KDE naming convention: the names of most KDE programs begin with the letter K. Konqueror first appeared with version 2 of KDE on October 23, 2000. It replaced its predecessor, KFM (KDE file manager). With

102-420: A WYSIWYG web page compositor; however, these extra functions enlarged and slowed the software, rendering it prone to crashing. This Gold Edition was renamed Netscape Communicator starting with version 4.0; the name change diluted its name-recognition and confused users. Netscape CEO James L. Barksdale insisted on the name change because Communicator was a general-purpose client application, which contained

153-460: A cross-browser scripting language, long after Netscape Navigator itself had dropped in popularity. Another example is the FRAME tag, which is widely supported today, and that has been incorporated into official web standards such as the "HTML 4.01 Frameset" specification. In a 2007 PC World column, the original Netscape Navigator was considered the "best tech product of all time" due to its impact on

204-631: A browser, the JavaScript engine runs in concert with the rendering engine via the Document Object Model and Web IDL bindings. However, the use of JavaScript engines is not limited to browsers; for example, the V8 engine is a core component of the Node.js runtime system . Since ECMAScript is the standardized specification of JavaScript, ECMAScript engine is another name for these implementations . With

255-515: A competing technology called JavaScript Style Sheets . Near the end of the development cycle, it became obvious that CSS would prevail, so Netscape quickly implemented a CSS to JSSS converter, which then processed CSS as JSSS (this is why turning JavaScript off also disabled CSS). Moreover, Netscape Communicator's browser interface design appeared dated in comparison to Internet Explorer and interface changes in Microsoft and Apple's operating systems. By

306-504: A customized version of IE could be offered. Also, web developers used proprietary , browser-specific extensions in web pages. Both Microsoft and Netscape did this, having added many proprietary HTML tags to their browsers, which forced users to choose between two competing and almost incompatible web browsers. In March 1998, Netscape released most of the development code base for Netscape Communicator under an open source license . Only pre-alpha versions of Netscape 5 were released before

357-508: A lot of support in the KDE 4 series. However, the KHTML rendering backend contains unique features, such as the ability to save a full archive of any given webpage into a single file with the ".war" extension. Konqueror integrates several customizable search services which can be accessed by entering the service's abbreviation code (for example, gg: for Google , or wp: for Misplaced Pages ) followed by

408-457: A potentially profitable market. Following Netscape's lead, Microsoft started a campaign to enter the web browser software market. Like Netscape before them, Microsoft licensed the Mosaic source code from Spyglass, Inc. (which in turn licensed code from University of Illinois ). Using this basic code, Microsoft created Internet Explorer (IE). The competition between Microsoft and Netscape dominated

459-589: A powerful graphical tool to manage content on multiple servers all in one window, " dragging and dropping " files between locations. Using the KParts object model , Konqueror executes components that are capable of viewing (and sometimes editing) specific filetypes and embeds their client area directly into the Konqueror panel in which the respective files have been opened. This makes it possible to, for example, view an OpenDocument (via Calligra ) or PDF document directly within Konqueror. Any application that implements

510-606: A screen split into two panels, where each one contains a folder, Web site, or file view.) Navigation functions (back, forward, history, etc.) are available during all operations. Most keyboard shortcuts can be remapped using a graphical configuration, and navigation can be conducted through an assignment of letters to nodes on the active file by pressing the control key. The address bar has extensive autocompletion support for local directories, past URLs , and past search terms. Konqueror has been developed as an autonomous web browser project. It uses KHTML as its browser engine , which

561-418: A solid product, became crash-prone and buggy ; for example, some versions re-downloaded an entire web page to re-render it when the browser window was re-sized (a nuisance to dial-up users), and the browser would usually crash when the page contained simple Cascading Style Sheets , as proper support for CSS never made it into Communicator 4.x. At the time that Communicator 4.0 was being developed, Netscape had

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612-429: A web address, even before the rest of the text and graphics had finished downloading. This made the web much more tolerable to the average user. Through the late 1990s, Netscape made sure that Navigator remained the technical leader among web browsers. New features included cookies , frames , proxy auto-config , and JavaScript (in version 2.0). Although those and other innovations eventually became open standards of

663-521: A web browser, such as support for HTML 4, CSS , JavaScript , cookies , and SSL . As of June 2019, this project's page on the KDE website has been taken down. KGet is a free download manager for KDE and is the default download manager for Konqueror. It is part of the KDE Network package. By default, it is the download manager used for Konqueror, but can also be used with Mozilla Firefox and Chromium-based web browsers as well as rekonq. KGet

714-465: A web browser. This was seen by Netscape as a clear opportunity to entrench Navigator at the heart of the next generation of computing, and thus gain the opportunity to expand into all manner of other software and service markets. With the success of Netscape showing the importance of the web (more people were using the Internet due in part to the ease of using Netscape), Internet browsing began to be seen as

765-415: A web-based system, known internally as "Constellation", which would allow users to access and edit their files anywhere across a network no matter what computer or operating system they happened to be using. Industry observers forecast the dawn of a new era of connected computing. The underlying operating system , it was believed, would not be an important consideration; future applications would run within

816-482: A window can contain multiple documents in tabs. Multiple document interfaces are not supported, however it is possible to recursively divide a window to view multiple documents simultaneously, or simply open another window. Konqueror's user interface is somewhat reminiscent of Microsoft 's Internet Explorer , though it is more customizable. It works extensively with "panels", which can be rearranged or added. For example, one could have an Internet bookmarks panel on

867-583: Is compliant with HTML and supports JavaScript , Java applets , CSS , SSL , and other relevant open standards . An alternative layout engine, kwebkitpart , is available from the Extragear . While KHTML is the default web-rendering engine, Konqueror is a modular application and other rendering engines are available. In particular, the WebKitPart component using the KHTML-derived WebKit engine has seen

918-482: The KParts model correctly can be embedded in this fashion. KParts can also be used to embed certain types of multimedia content into HTML pages; for example, the KMPlayer KPart enables Konqueror to show embedded video on web pages. In addition to browsing files and websites, Konqueror utilizes KIO plugins to extend its capabilities well beyond those of other browsers and file managers. It uses components of KIO,

969-700: The Netscape line, from versions 1 to 4.08, and 9.x. It was the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corporation and was the dominant web browser in terms of usage share in the 1990s, but by around 2003 its user base had all but disappeared. This was partly because the Netscape Corporation (later purchased by AOL ) did not sustain Netscape Navigator's technical innovation in the late 1990s. The business demise of Netscape

1020-657: The Netscape Communicator suite in 1997. Netscape Communicator's 4.x source code was the base for the Netscape-developed Mozilla Application Suite , which was later renamed SeaMonkey . Netscape's Mozilla Suite also served as the base for a browser-only spinoff called Mozilla Firefox . The Netscape Navigator name returned in 2007 when AOL announced version 9 of the Netscape series of browsers, Netscape Navigator 9 . On December 28, 2007, AOL canceled its development but continued supporting

1071-513: The W3C and ECMA and were emulated by other browsers, they were often viewed as controversial. Netscape, according to critics, was more interested in bending the web to its own de facto "standards" (bypassing standards committees and thus marginalizing the commercial competition) than it was in fixing bugs in its products. Consumer rights advocates were particularly critical of cookies and of commercial web sites using them to invade individual privacy. In

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1122-534: The browser wars . Internet Explorer, Version 1.0 (shipped in the Internet Jumpstart Kit in Microsoft Plus! For Windows 95 ) and IE, Version 2.0 (the first cross-platform version of the web browser, supporting both Windows and Mac OS ) were thought by many to be inferior and primitive when compared to contemporary versions of Netscape Navigator. With the release of IE version 3.0 (1996) Microsoft

1173-424: The "man:" and "info:" IOslaves can be used to fetch man and info formatted documentation. An embedded systems version, Konqueror Embedded was previously available . Unlike the full version of Konqueror, Embedded Konqueror is purely a web browser. It does not require KDE or even the X window system . A single static library, it is designed to be as small as possible, while providing all necessary functions of

1224-515: The Internet. On the 16th of November 2024 a user by the username of mjdxp on the Labyrinth Zone website posted a screenshot of a download link for a file called "AOL_Netscape.exe" which revealed a version of the Netscape browser based on a version of Chromium 123 with some cosmetic changes. The browser seems to be some De-Googled version of Chromium. The first release of the Netscape website with

1275-523: The JS engine. KJS is Konqueror's JavaScript engine that was originally developed by Harri Porten in 2000. On June 13, 2002, Maciej Stachowiak announced on a mailing list that Apple was releasing JavaScriptCore , a framework for Mac OS X that was based on KJS. Kubuntu 's 10.10 Maverick Meerkat release switched the default browser from Konqueror to rekonq, as well as a Firefox installer being added. Kubuntu subsequently switched from rekonq to Firefox, with

1326-588: The KDE I/O plugin system, to access different protocols such as HTTP and FTP (support for these is built-in), WebDAV , SMB (Windows shares), SFTP and FISH (a handy replacement to the latter when the SFTP subsystem is disabled on the remote host). Similarly, Konqueror can use KIO plugins (called IOslaves) to access ZIP files and other archives, to process ed2k links (edonkey/emule), or even to browse audio CDs , ("audiocd:/") and rip them via drag-and-drop . Likewise,

1377-598: The Konsole KPart, Konqueror can also use a Filelight KPart, to view a radial diagram of the user's filesystem. Although this functionality has not been removed from Konqueror, as of KDE 4, Dolphin has replaced Konqueror as the default file manager. Dolphin can – like Konqueror – divide each window or tab into multiple panes. Konqueror makes more powerful use of this feature, allowing as many vertically and horizontally divided panes as desired. Each can link to different content or even remote locations, so that Konqueror becomes

1428-517: The Mozilla codebase, gave it a new GUI, and released it as Netscape 6. This did nothing to win back users, who continued to migrate to Internet Explorer. After the release of Netscape 7 and a long public beta test, Mozilla 1.0 was released on June 5, 2002. The same code-base, notably the Gecko layout engine, became the basis of independent applications, including Firefox and Thunderbird . On December 28, 2007,

1479-465: The Navigator browser . The aging Netscape Communicator 4.x was slower than Internet Explorer 5.0 . Typical web pages had become heavily illustrated, often JavaScript-intensive, and encoded with HTML features designed for specific purposes but now employed as global layout tools (HTML tables, the most obvious example of this, were especially difficult for Communicator to render). The Netscape browser, once

1530-447: The Netscape developers announced that AOL had canceled development of Netscape Navigator, leaving it unsupported as of March 1, 2008. Archived and unsupported versions of the browser remain available for download. Netscape's contributions to the web include JavaScript , which was submitted as a new standard to Ecma International . The resultant ECMAScript specification allowed JavaScript support by multiple web browsers and its use as

1581-611: The advent of WebAssembly , some engines can also execute this code in the same sandbox as regular JavaScript code. The first JavaScript engine was created by Brendan Eich in 1995 for the Netscape Navigator web browser . It was a rudimentary interpreter for the nascent language Eich invented. (This evolved into the SpiderMonkey engine, still used by the Firefox browser. ) Google debuted its Chrome browser in 2008, with

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1632-441: The browser download link in it was done on the 10th of September 2024. JavaScript engine A JavaScript engine is a software component that executes JavaScript code . The first JavaScript engines were mere interpreters , but all relevant modern engines use just-in-time compilation for improved performance. JavaScript engines are typically developed by web browser vendors, and every major browser has one. In

1683-861: The end of the decade, Netscape's web browser had lost dominance over the Windows platform, and the August 1997 Microsoft financial agreement to invest $ 150 million in Apple Computer required that Apple make Internet Explorer the default web browser in new Mac OS distributions. The latest IE Mac release at that time was Internet Explorer version 3.0 for Macintosh, but Internet Explorer 4 was released later that year. Microsoft succeeded in having ISPs and PC vendors distribute Internet Explorer to their customers instead of Netscape Navigator, mostly due to Microsoft using its leverage from Windows OEM licenses, and partly aided by Microsoft's investment in making IE brandable , such that

1734-494: The full version 1.0 available in December 1994. However, two months later, the company announced that only educational and non-profit institutions could use version 1.0 at no charge. The reversal was complete with the availability of version 1.1 beta on March 6, 1995, in which a press release states that the final 1.1 release would be available at no cost only for academic and non-profit organizational use. The first few releases of

1785-408: The full version of the browser continued to be made available for free online, with boxed versions available on floppy disks (and later CDs) in stores along with a period of phone support. During this era, "Internet Starter Kit" books were popular, and usually included a floppy disk or CD containing internet software, and this was a popular means of obtaining Netscape's and other browsers. Email support

1836-450: The influx of new users it brought. With a good mix of features and an attractive licensing scheme that allowed free use for non-commercial purposes, the Netscape browser soon became the de facto standard, particularly on the Windows platform. Internet service providers and computer magazine publishers helped make Navigator readily available. An innovation that Netscape introduced in 1994

1887-534: The left side of the browser window , and by clicking a bookmark, the respective web page would be viewed in the larger panel to the right. Alternatively, one could display a hierarchical list of folders in one panel and the content of the selected folder in another. Panels are quite flexible and can even include, among other KParts ( components ), a console window, a text editor, and a media player. Panel configurations can be saved, and there are some default configurations. (For example, " Midnight Commander " displays

1938-503: The marketplace, however, these concerns made little difference. Netscape Navigator remained the market leader with more than 50% usage share . The browser software was available for a wide range of operating systems, including Windows ( 3.1 , 95 , 98 , NT ), Macintosh , Linux , OS/2 , and many versions of Unix including OSF/1 , Sun Solaris , BSD/OS , IRIX , AIX , and HP-UX , and looked and worked nearly identically on every one of them. Netscape began to experiment with prototypes of

1989-463: The open source community decided to scrap the Netscape Navigator codebase entirely and build a new web browser around the Gecko layout engine which Netscape had been developing but which had not yet incorporated. The community-developed open source project was named Mozilla , Netscape Navigator's original code name . America Online bought Netscape; Netscape programmers took a pre- beta -quality form of

2040-416: The product were made available in "commercial" and "evaluation" versions; for example, version "1.0" and version "1.0N". The "N" evaluation versions were identical to the commercial versions; the letter was intended as a reminder to people to pay for the browser once they felt they had tried it long enough and were satisfied with it. This distinction was formally dropped within a year of the initial release, and

2091-936: The recently departed founder of Silicon Graphics . Clark believed that the Mosaic browser had great commercial possibilities and provided the seed money. Soon Mosaic Communications Corporation was in business in Mountain View, California , with Andreessen as a vice-president. Since the University of Illinois was unhappy with the company's use of the Mosaic name, the company changed its name to Netscape Communications (suggested by product manager Greg Sands ) and named its flagship web browser Netscape Navigator. Netscape announced in its first press release (October 13, 1994) that it would make Navigator available without charge to all non-commercial users, and beta versions of version 1.0 and 1.1 were freely downloadable in November 1994 and March 1995, with

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2142-505: The release of 14.04 Trusty Tahr. Konqueror also allows browsing the local directory hierarchy—either by entering locations in the address bar, or by selecting items in the file browser window. It allows browsing in different views, which differ in their usage of icons and layout. Files can also be executed , viewed, copied, moved, and deleted. The user can also open an embedded version of Konsole , via KDE's KParts technology, in which they can directly execute shell commands. In addition to

2193-550: The release of KDE 4 in 2008, the functionalities of web browser and file manager were separated: Dolphin replaced Konqueror as the default KDE file manager, while the KDE community continues to maintain Konqueror as the default KDE web browser. Konqueror can utilize all KIOslaves installed on the user's system. Some examples include: A complete list is available in the KDE Info Center's Protocols section. Konqueror supports tabbed document interface and Split views, wherein

2244-415: The same name in their User-Agent identifiers so that web servers would send them the same pages as were sent to Netscape browsers. Mozilla is now a generic name for matters related to the open source successor to Netscape Communicator and is most identified with the browser Firefox . When the consumer Internet revolution arrived in the mid-1990s, Netscape was well-positioned to take advantage of it and

2295-501: The search term(s). One can add their own search service; for instance, to retrieve English Misplaced Pages articles, a shortcut may be added with the URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=\{@}&go=Go . KHTML's rendering speed is on par with that of competing browsers, but sites with customized JavaScript are often problematic due to KHTML's much smaller mind- and market-share , resulting in fewer JavaScript features built into

2346-626: The web browser with security updates until March 1, 2008. AOL allows downloading of archived versions of the Netscape Navigator web browser family. Netscape Navigator was inspired by the success of the Mosaic web browser, which was co-written by Marc Andreessen , a part-time employee of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois . After Andreessen graduated in 1993, he moved to California and there met Jim Clark ,

2397-447: Was a central premise of Microsoft's antitrust trial , wherein the Court ruled that Microsoft 's bundling of Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system was a monopolistic and illegal business practice. The decision came too late for Netscape, however, as Internet Explorer had by then become the dominant web browser in Windows. The Netscape Navigator web browser was succeeded by

2448-524: Was able to catch up with Netscape competitively, with IE Version 4.0 (1997) further improvement in terms of market share. IE 5.0 (1999) improved stability and took significant market share from Netscape Navigator for the first time. There were two versions of Netscape Navigator 3.0, the Standard Edition and the Gold Edition. The latter consisted of the Navigator browser with e-mail, news readers, and

2499-457: Was featured by Tux Magazine and Free Software Magazine . On KDE 3 , KGet 0.8.x, 1 supported HTTP/FTP download. On KDE Software Compilation 4 , KGet 2 was released; it supported bandwidth throttling segmentation, multi-threading, and the BitTorrent protocol. Netscape Navigator Netscape Navigator is a discontinued proprietary web browser , and the original browser of

2550-580: Was initially free and remained so for a year or two until the volume of support requests grew too high. During development, the Netscape browser was known by the code name Mozilla , which became the name of a Godzilla -like cartoon dragon mascot used prominently on the company's web site. The Mozilla name was also used as the User-Agent in HTTP requests by the browser. Other web browsers claimed to be compatible with Netscape's extensions to HTML and therefore used

2601-419: Was the on-the-fly display of web pages, where text and graphics appeared on the screen as the web page downloaded. Earlier web browsers would not display a page until all graphics on it had been loaded over the network connection; this meant a user might have only a blank page for several minutes. With Netscape, people using dial-up connections could begin reading the text of a web page within seconds of entering

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