Konqueror has always been my favourite web browser. While Konqueror has some rendering problems Mozilla does not, I've always found things faster using Konqueror, The search field in the top right side of Mozilla FireFox is a powerful feature, but coming from the DOS days I'm use to using hot keys, so I find it quicker to use the keyboard than to mouse up and type something. Ctrl+o opens a dialog box in which you can enter URLs in Konqueror. Konqueror also has quick search strings for Google, dictionary.com, freshmeat, sourceforge and a few other web sites. Simply type the shortcut letters in the URL dialog box, followed by a colon and the term you're looking for. If you wanted to search for The Gimp on Google you'd type:
gg: The Gimp
There are dozens of shortcuts which you can discover on your own by clicking Settings -> Configure Konqueror -> Web Shortcuts. The shortcuts I use most are:
gg: Google search
ggi: Google image search
fm: Freshmeat search
sf: Sourceforge search
dict: Merriam Webster dictionary
imdb: Imdb
Mozilla Firefox is a great browser, I'm not knocking it, but when I need to do something faster I find Konqueror better suited to the task.
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