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    reKonq Krashed One Time Too Many Times

    Since My upgrade from 10.10 to 12.04 months ago, I was trying very hard to stick with Rekonq. Honestly I browsed though tons of crashes and error reports about this topic. Today when it crashed yet again, I tried to submit the bug report and once more it told me, my debug information was useless. So I am now using Chromium from http://www.chromium.org (don't care much for the Google flavor LoL) Why doesn't Chrome come standard on Kubuntu or at least have an installer in the K menu Launcher as FireFox does? I know Rekonq is some scaled down version of Konqueror, and is all part of the KDE package but every time a mouse farts this thing just drops and I can't work like that.

    If anyone here knows any reason for keeping the Rekonq around after I have my Chrome up and running, I would like to know? Is there other items used for this or can I safely remove it from the system?
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    Of course you can remove it. I think the system will require you to have one web browser, but since you have Chrome you should be ok. Ive been haivng a lot of crashes lately too, and have the same infuriating useless bug report pop up.
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      #3
      Originally posted by Simon View Post
      If anyone here knows any reason for keeping the Rekonq around after I have my Chrome up and running, I would like to know? Is there other items used for this or can I safely remove it from the system?
      I only have 13.04 available here but if I were to remove rekonq then nothing else would be removed.

      13.04 has rekonq 2.1 which hasn't crashed on me yet. It's a big improvement over 1.x but in my opinion it is still very inferior to Firefox, Opera and Chrome/Chromium. Keep Chrome and if you get a prompt to make Chrome your default browser, say 'yes'.
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        #4
        Thanks guys, I just wasn't sure if they had it integrated into the system somehow. Wait that would be Windows LoL.
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          #5
          chrome and chromium are 2 diferent browsers chromium being the open source ver. of the google chrome browser ,,,,,,and chromium can be had from in your package manager (muon).
          you cant get a useful bug/crash report with out the *-dbg package for the program in question being installed , so if you would like to be able to generate one for rekonq , install the rekonq-dbg package with muon and the next time it crashes you can generate a useful bug report

          VINNY
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            #6
            Hi, I'm in a similar boat. I had installed Kubuntu well over a year ago and decided to update it this morning. (now Linux 3.0.0-31-generic; KDE version 4.7.4) Everything seemed to go through OK but rekonq doesn't work. I have now uninstalled it and have read the comments above and I'm wondering whether I should use Chromium instead. I don't need a fancy GUI because my main use will be downloading large text files (5-10GiB) and processing them with Python. This is all a bit experimental. I am a complete novice re Linux (& Python for that matter). Do I actually need a browser for ftp? The computer I'm using is a small Compaq Pressario laptop. Processor speed 1,800, total physical memory 1.35GiB, free physical memory 591MiB.
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              For those people fed-up with the crashes of Rekonq and want to use a web browser with the KDE look and feel then replace Rekonq with Konqueror and install the webkit plugin at the same time.
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                @Vinny: Yes, I am paranoid and I don't do Google lol. I knew that basically all Google has done is trademark an open source project and distribute it for publicity. I am currently running the Chromium from my software package manager.

                @NickOz: In my father's days, he used "Lynx" a no thrills text only browser. I think the only thing that bugged me about using Chromium is the constant whining about not being "signed in". Once you get it tweaked it seems to work just fine... unless you visit Google of course. I can highly recommend 2 plugins for Chromium; Stylish - edits the webpages appearance using css and Awesome New Tab Page - edit your new tab page with functional links and widgets as opposed to being a garbage screen.

                @NickStone: I might give Konqueror a try, but I have it all worked out for now. I did like the tools in Rekonq (spoofing the browser) to report I had (mozilla, chrome, IE) the desired browser.


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                Thanks to all of you!
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                  #9
                  Konqueror has a plugin/package that will spoof the browser as well ,,,,,it may even be the same one rekonq was using ,,,,,I dont have time to look it up ATM

                  VINNY
                  i7 4core HT 8MB L3 2.9GHz
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                    Originally posted by NickStone View Post
                    For those people fed-up with the crashes of Rekonq and want to use a web browser with the KDE look and feel then replace Rekonq with Konqueror and install the webkit plugin at the same time.
                    rekonq 2.2 has just been released and has been made available to Raring testers. Users of other releases might want to consider compiling rekonq 2.2 from source.

                    No crashes noted so far. Actually, I'm posting with it now.
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                      #11
                      Thanks Teunis,
                      I did indeed download wget and found it most useful.
                      See http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...on-Crash/page2
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