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Why does my Konqueror browser not work on Experts-Exchange?
If I, supposedly, have a standards compliant browser, why won't it work on experts-exchange?
Problems include slooooooow loading of pages, and buttons that don't work, or features that aren't available or even seen.
Settings:
I used to use the default browser ID which is "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5) KHTML/3.5.10 (like Gecko)". I also had "Add operating system name" checked.
Because I experienced problems on other sites I started by unchecking "Add operating system name". That helped, but I found that not sending any browser identification worked even better on the sites I was having problems with. So my settings now are "don't send any browser ID".
I'm thinking bad programming, such as asking if this is an MS browser rather than does this JS capability exist is the culprit, but would like to know for sure--very annoying.
Thanks,
Frank
Problems include slooooooow loading of pages, and buttons that don't work, or features that aren't available or even seen.
Settings:
I used to use the default browser ID which is "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5) KHTML/3.5.10 (like Gecko)". I also had "Add operating system name" checked.
Because I experienced problems on other sites I started by unchecking "Add operating system name". That helped, but I found that not sending any browser identification worked even better on the sites I was having problems with. So my settings now are "don't send any browser ID".
I'm thinking bad programming, such as asking if this is an MS browser rather than does this JS capability exist is the culprit, but would like to know for sure--very annoying.
Thanks,
Frank
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Thanks forimar. That helped some, with the speed aspects.
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According to the documentation, Konqueror is "standards compliant." Turning off ID has improved usability, that's why I think it is a website issue in many cases.
It's still not as fast as I'd like but better with ipv6 disabled. That most likely is a KDE issue.
For any who need to know, I have listed the steps I took here: http://www.nixish.com/wiki/doku.php?id=kde_konqueror_slow
I don't know if this is the best way to do this, but it's what I gleaned from searching around "how to disable ipv6 in Kubuntu".