Linux, KDE: wow, Konqueror Sucks Major A.

Xah Lee, 2013-02-12

wow, Konqueror sucks major A.

• when you set home page, it doesn't take effect until restart.
• doesn't support inline SVG. ⁖ Browser Inline SVG Image Height Weight Scale vs Crop. Every major browser does, even IE.
• doesn't support HTML5 “figure” tag. 〔☛ HTML5 “figure” ＆ “figurecaption” Tags Browser Support〕
• doesn't render space before corner bracket added using CSS “:before” pseudo-elements.
• render things extremely badly.
• doesn't support many standard keys. ⁖ middle click on tab doesn't close it. 【Ctrl+⇟ Page ▽】 doesn't switch to next tab. 【Ctrl+⇧ Shift+t】 doesn't open last closed tab. 【Alt+d】 doesn't put cursor on URL field. Weird keys of its own, unexpected things happen when you press some key. This usability problem is shared with Opera. 〔☛ Opera Browser Pains〕
• doesn't support the extra “back” button on mouse by default. (Linux Firefox does, so does Google Chrome.)
• doesn't support the ⌫ Backspace key for “back”.
• typing into url field to search doesn't work, also, returns one ugly geek error telling you about “Improperly Formatted URL” with the helpful proper syntax protocol://user:password@www.example.org:port/folder/filename.extension?…. OK, fine, i'll type in the search box then, but there's no search box in sight.
• one gian bloatware. Tries to be folder viewer too.

I'm running Konqueror 4.8.5 on xfce. Is these the norm or because am not properly running it on KDE?