Looks like the folks over at LinuxQuestions.org think pretty highly of gecko-based browsers. Mozilla and friends took over 70% of the votes for best Web browser. I thought it was interesting that even though KDE won best desktop environment pretty handily over Gnome (59% to 36%) Mozilla and Galeon both beat Konqueror and Mozilla with nearly three times the votes. Did a few KDE users vote for gecko-based browsers?
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I'm not sure about the people who voted in that - as I didn't - but I'm not a fan of Konq. I don't mind KDE (in fact it has a draw card, that last time I used gnome, gnome doesn't have - fuzzy clock). This is not to say the rendering engine is crap (go Safari), just that I don't like Konq as a browser.
I use konqueror most of the time in linux, because it's fast and easy on the eye (and it renders ALL my text anti-aliased, which is something I can't persuade mozilla to do, despite having configured it EXACTLY like all the websites talking about AA suggest), but I still prefer mozilla. Sure, mozilla is slow and ugly, but it's not as much of a usability disaster for general browsing like konqueror is with it's way too many toolbar buttons, complex menu layout (it has even more menu's than mozilla!) and poor tabbed browsing integration (and, yes, I am talking about the konqueror in KDE 3.1, which doesn't even have toolbar buttons to create or close tabs until you add them yourself).
Why is it that open-source projects are unable to design pretty AND usable apps?