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by lmm 4910 days ago
Konqueror was by some distance the best browser available at the time (even today there is Konqueror 3.2 functionality that I can't find in anything else), and the fact that they were able to keep it that way with about 5 devs total spoke to the quality of the code.
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Agree. I used KHTML (later known as Konqueror) as my primary browser (as a webdev!) since early days of KDE until I switched to Mac in 2006. Konqueror always felt right on KDE, just like Safari feels right on OS X (native feel, integration, etc).

A little feature I still miss was that you could navigate up in URL hierarchy by alt+up, just like in file-browsing mode (not sure if it's still supported by today's Konqueror).

Try command-clicking the Safari title bar sometime (when you're at a page with a URL that goes several levels deep) if you haven't before.
That's nice one! )Although not nearby as intuitive as <cmd/ctrl>+up.)
Not sure I agree — its standard for OS X documents to show their hierarchy when their title bar is command-clicked; cmd-up arrow is much less broadly used.
It's not only standard Mac OS X behavior, but Mac OS in general. I learned this trick in System 7, and I believe it was around for some time before then.
It's Ctrl(or Cmd)-Backspace in Opera.