The Grumpy Editor's browser review - a followup [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's browser review - a followup

Posted Feb 19, 2004 3:47 UTC (Thu) by malex (subscriber, #15692)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's browser review - a followup

Well, Konqueror 3.2 does have a password manager of sorts. Install
kwalletmanager if you are using Debian and be happy. It's main difference
from other password managers is that it asks you for your master password
(in mozilla-speak) every time you want it to fill in a password field on
a web form. Some people will argue that it's a nuisance, but it won't
bother most as you only have to remember one password. All in all,
despite problems with some pages that Gecko handles and konqueror does
not this is subjectively the best browser at the moment.

Cheers,

Alex.

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The Grumpy Editor's browser review - a followup

Posted Feb 19, 2004 4:06 UTC (Thu) by AdHoc (subscriber, #1115) [Link]

Actually, in my experience you only have to provide the master password the first time kwallet starts up, which is fairly optimal in my view. This is probably a configurable setting.

One of the best features of Konq is the spellchecker in web forms. Awesome for webmail (not posting from konq, so excuse any errors :)

cheers,
AdHoc

ps - Still anxiously awaiting a write up on the future and direction of Xfree86 and associated forks/projects etc. Though I can see the difficulty with the ever evolving situation (now with the license issue), and the seeming unavailabily of some of the key players for comment (I've heard Dawes is hard to get ahold of, though haven't tried personally)

The Grumpy Editor's browser review - a followup

Posted Feb 19, 2004 8:41 UTC (Thu) by xyz (subscriber, #504) [Link]

The kwallet has an option to configure its behaviour, you can choose to
ask for the global password once or everytime any application is used.

Notice that it applies to the webbrowser as well as to other services:
ftp, ssh, etc.

Impressive and effective. :-)