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By the way, I mentioned Javascript; a while back I tried one of the KDE browsers
and it had a few scenarios it had trouble handling; some, but not all, Javascript
commands exposed occasional problems with Yahoo Mail; can’t recall if Google Gmail
was exposed at the same time or not; I’ll check back on that when I can
get on a system with KDE and Konqueror or whatever I can find where I can test again…I’m trying Konqueror from OpenMandriva and so far it seems to be working fine; I haven’t stumbled across
any issue with this forum or yahoo yet…Incidentally, while this particular matter (and I went back to CHECK it out) WAS an issue, and the browser with the problem WAS Konqueror.
Since it’s been a few years since I had the issue and the KDE Plasma project has done a LOT of great work, I went back to check this out.I realize that not all that many people actually use Konqueror as a Web Browser, but I have used it for both file manager AND Web browser
use in the past. I’m VERY HAPPY to report that not only was my reported defect fixed, I can also tell you that at least for routine
browsing, Konqueror works fine with Yahoo Mail AND it works fine with our antiX Forum; those are certainly two places where I spend a
significant percentage of my overall browsing activity.I don’t often use OpenMandriva any more, but recently I decided to check it out to see how far they’ve come. It probably WON’T be a
big distribution choice for many here unless you also have newer systems with good hardware capabilities. If you DO want to check
out KDE Plasma for any reason, I was happy to see that they have a much improved distribution recently. You can also use either their
tools, or you can condense the overly cumbersome GUI tools to something a bit more tolerable to the likes of us around here:
sudo dnf up will usually update their distro and I don’t think there’s any other command you have to issue with it.
Likewise, sudo dnf in followed by the name of one or more packages will allow you to install packages.I checked: here’s the more “full form” of a few of the dnf arguments –
To search the repositories for a package type:
# sudo dnf search packagename
To install the package:
# dnf install packagename
To remove a package:
# dnf remove packagename
See https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html for the full command reference; it’s simple to use in basic form, but it’s capable of a very rich set of alternatives and options (more than most of us will EVER need).
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