Summary: Reasons why you would prefer to use Konqueror as a web browser instead of InternetExplorer.

See: SafariBrowser, InternetExplorerAlternatives

Konqueror home page is at http://www.konqueror.org/ with screenshots plus feature list at http://www.konqueror.org/features/browser.php

Konq is fast, light, does all sorts of KDE protocols (e.g. fish://user@host.name to manage files through ssh, audiocd:/ to list and maybe rip the contents of an audio CD in various formats), has great tab handling, good cookie and popup handling, and all sorts of helpful "fruit" like spellchecking in input fields.

Konq requires KDE (the K Desktop Environment) which can be downloaded from http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/ (version number of the MS-Windows version usually lags the main release by about 3 or 4 subreleases).

Like IE, it's also a file manager, with thumbnails, truly informative popup tags, an image gallery builder and hover-previews of stuff like audio files.

Specially-loved neato features include the ability to turn all of your currently open tabs into a folder of bookmarks in one click, or into a "View profile" which records page positions and the like as well, and to open a folder-full of bookmarks into a set of tabs in one click. Konqueror also exports to and imports from the bookmarks of numerous other browsers.

Cookies, Images, Java, JavaScript/ECMAScript in general and several JavaScript properties can be globally or per-site set to Yes/No/Ask and in some cases Smart.

You get total control over your cookies and what gets cached, excellent for privacy addicts.

There are several handy tools to (for example) validate or translate the current page. You can set your browser ID instantly or in detail. Web authors will also appreciate "Show DOM Tree" and the ability to periodically auto-refresh.

You can split and merge the window horizontally and/or vertically, turn tabs into separate windows or back again, view a standard history or a list of most-often-visited sites.

Bookmarks are easy to keep managed, you open the bookmark menu you want the item in, and click "Add bookmark" or "New bookmark folder" at the end of that menu, and there it is. Bookmarks are tagged with their FavIcon. You can bookmark just about anything - Audio CD tracks, shell sessions, name it.

The entire thing is controllable from the command line or other programs, if you wish.

And yes, of course I used it to post this. (-: