Configuring
In common with the rest of , is highly configurable, so you can really get the look and feel that best fits your needs and wishes.

Changing Bars
When is newly installed, 's window contains a Menubar, a Toolbar, a Locationbar and possibly a Bookmark Toolbar.
Maybe you don't need all these bars. To hide one of them, go into the Settings menu and uncheck its box. To show a hidden bar, just check the box.
On the left hand end of each bar you can see some vertical lines. By clicking on them, you flatten the bar, meaning that it is hidden but can be quickly restored by clicking on the now horizontal lines. You can also drag a bar into a new position with these lines.
If you right click on a Toolbar, you will get a menu to configure this bar. You can choose the orientation, text position and icon size
If you hide the Menubar, you won't be able to access the Settings menu. To restore it, right click on the view and check Show Menubar.
The icons shown in the various bars can be changed by using the Settings Configure Toolbars... option, which brings up the Configure Toolbars dialog box. The Main and Extra Toolbars are divided into sections, such as Main Toolbar <>, Main Toolbar <khtmlpart> and Extra Toolbar <khtmlsettingsplugin>. The number and type of these sections will depend on whether is in Web Browser or File Manager mode and whether you have plugins installed.

File Manager Configuration
Choose Settings Configure Konqueror... File Manager or from the K menu select Preferences File Browsing File Manager. This will bring up a dialog box with four tabbed pages; Behavior Appearance, Trash, and Previews.

Behavior
The Open directories in separate windows option lets you choose whether Konqueror will open up a new window when you open a directory, or show that directory's contents in the current view.
If you check the Show network operations in a single window box progress information for all network file transfers will be shown in a single window, otherwise separate windows will be opened for each transfer.
If the Show file tips box is checked a small popup window containing additional information will appear when you move the mouse over a file name in Icon View mode. The Number of file tip entries value determines how much additional information is shown.
The Home URL lets you choose where jumps to when you press the Toolbar Home button (this is usually your home directory ~). It does not affect the first directory shown when is started from a desktop or panel icon.
The Minimize memory usage area is interesting as it lets you trade off memory usage against the consequences of crashing.
Select Never if you have plenty of RAM. A separate instance of will exist in memory for each window that you have opened so that a problem with one is unlikely to affect the others.
If you select For local browsing only a single instance of will exist in memory for all of the local browsing windows you have open, although separate instances will exist for each web browsing window. This means that a problem with any of the local browsing windows can cause all of them to close.
The For web browsing only option is the opposite to For local browsing only so that local browsing windows are isolated from one another but a problem with a web browsing window may cause all web browsing windows to close.
The Always option can be picked if you are short of RAM but means that a problem with any window can cause all open windows to close down.

Appearance
This page lets you set the font size and color used by in File Manager mode and how text associated with icons is displayed.

Trash
Here you can choose whether or not asks for confirmation before deleting items.

Previews
This page lets you control whether file previews are allowed for different protocols. Uncheck the boxes for those protocols which are too slow for comfortable previewing.

File Associations
What does when you click on a file name or icon is determined by the file type and the list of actions that keeps for the various file types and can be changed to suit your taste or to add a new file type.
For example Right click on a text (.txt) file and select the Edit File Type item. This will bring up a dialog box as shown below.
Edit File Type dialog, General tab
Under the General tab, the Application Preference Order section defines what appears in the Open With menu for this type of file. You can change these applications and their order. You can also change the icon that uses for this file type by clicking on the icon, and you can add the extensions (Filename Patterns) for any other types of file that you want to be handled in the same way.
is clever enough to recognise most plain text files and treat them as such even though they don't have the .txt extension.
The Embedding (which actually refers to the Preview) tab page controls what happens when you click on a filename.
File types are divided into several groups; application, audio, image, inode, message, text and video.
can be configured to associate any file type with an installed application.
For example, the Targa image type doesn't exist in . If you have such a file on your disk, it will have a question mark as an icon. If you click on it, will ask you which application you want to use. You could just type in the name of a suitable application each time you select a Targa file, but the best approach is to tell what to do with a Targa image.
Let's add the Targa mime type to .
Open the Settings Configure Konqueror... File Associations dialog box and click on the Add... button at the lower left, this will bring up a little dialog box. Select Image in the Group drop down box, type Targa in the Type name Text Box, and press OK.
Adding the Targa type, step 2
Now have a look at the upper right hand corner of the File Associations Dialog Box. Click on the icon and choose a nice one, here the best seems to be the image icon. In the Filename Patterns Text Box, add the patterns *.tga and *.TGA by clicking on the upper right Add... button. This means that every file with the .tga or .TGA (case is important) extension will now be considered as a Targa image.
now knows what a Targa file is, but it doesn't know what to do with it. We need to tell which application to launch to view a Targa file. At the lower right hand corner in the Application Preference Order area, click on the Add... button bring up the following Dialog Box.
Adding the Targa type, step 3
You can choose an application from the Known Applications List Box, but as we want to use Gimp which is not listed, type gimp into the Add Application box.
Gimp is really nice but it is big and not designed for quick viewing. Click once more on the Add... button at the lower right hand corner of the File Associations Dialog Box to bring up the little Application Dialog Box, and in the Add Application Text Box, type xv or the name of any other suitable application you can have on your system.
Now you have two application in the list. The first one will be the default application, you can arrange them as you prefer with the Move Up and Move Down buttons.
All Targa files will now be recognized by .

Konqueror Browser Configuration
Choose Settings Configure Konqueror... Konqueror Browser or from the K menu select Preferences Web Browsing Konqueror Browser. This will bring up a dialog box with five tabbed pages; HTML, Appearance, Java, JavaScript and Plugins.

HTML
If you check the Enable completion of forms box in the Form Completion section of this page will remember the data you enter in web forms and suggest it in similar fields for all forms. The Maximum completions value is the number of values will remember for a form field. Note that letting remember this type of data could be considered a security risk.
Checking the Change cursor over links box causes the cursor to change from a pointer to a hand when it is over a link in a web page. This is advisable as otherwise you may miss links which are shown as images rather than text.
If you select Right click goes back in history then a right click on a view will be interpreted as Go Back. In this case you can get the traditional context menu by moving the mouse with the right held down.
If the Automatically load images box is checked will automatically load any images that are embedded in the web page. Otherwise it will display placeholders for the images and you can then manually load them by clicking on the image buttons in the placeholders.
Some web pages request an automatic reload or redirection after a period of time. You can disable this action by unchecking the Allow automatic delayed reloading / redirecting box.
The Underline links section lets you choose whether links are never underlined, always underlined, or underlined only when the mouse tip is over them.
The Animations section controls how animated images are displayed.

Appearance
This page lets you set the font type, size, character set and default encoding to be used when browsing.

Java
is not JavaScript but a full featured language. HTML pages using can cause programs, usually called applets, to be downloaded and run on your machine.
The Java tab page lets you set 's global and domain-specific policies for .
The Enable Java globally check box controls whether will generally accept or ignore Java applets, but this can be modified by adding Domain-specific Accept or Reject policies. The full domain name must be entered here, for example to enable (or disable) Java for the site http://news.bbc.co.uk you have to enter news.bbc.co.uk in the Host/Domain field, just putting bbc.co.uk or *.bbc.co.uk will not work.
To run applets, you need a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) installed on your machine and needs to know where it is. You can usually just enter java into the Path to java executable text box, but if that doesn't work or if you have several virtual machines installed and you want to use a particular one then enter the full path to your installation, such as /usr/java/bin.
As with any browser, enabling active content (Java or JavaScript) can weaken your system's security. It is recommended that the Use Security Manager option in the Java tab page is selected if you are enabling . This requires that the installation on your machine is Java2 compliant.
Visit http://www.konqueror.org for up to date information about how well various JVM's work with .

JavaScript
Javascript is a small scripting language often used to add animation or other features to HTML pages. includes an ECMAScript compatible interpreter to handle scripting languages such as 's JavaScript and 's JScript.
The Enable JavaScript globally check box controls whether will generally accept or ignore Javascript, but this can be modified by adding Domain-specific Accept or Reject policies as for .
In the JavaScript web popups policy area of the dialog box you can define how handles JavaScript window.open() commands. Some web sites make annoying use of this command to pop up advertizing banners, but be aware that certain sites require the window.open() function for proper operation.

Plugins
This tab page lets you globally enable or disable the excution of plugins, such as Flash, that can be contained in web pages. Note that, as with any browser, enabling active content can be a security problem. For more information about plugins see the section Netscape Plugins.

Enhanced Browsing
Use the Menubar Settings Configure Konqueror... Enhanced Browsing or the K menu Preferences Web Browsing Enhanced Browsing selection to bring up the KDE Control Module Enhanced Browsing dialog box.
If the Enable Internet Keywords box is checked you can simply type normal words and phrases such as linux into the Locationbar and you will either be redirected to the appropriate site or presented with a list of possible links. To do this submits the word(s) to www.internetkeywords.org which will redirect you if it finds a matching Internet Keyword.
The Search Fallback drop down box lets you pick a search engine that will be used if an exact Internet Keyword match isn't found. If you select None then www.internetkeywords.org will be used.
If you check the Enable Search Shortcuts box will let you use the Shortcuts defined in the selection box to choose a particular search engine. For example you can type av:linux into the Locationbar to search for linux using Altavista.

Cookie Configuration
Use the Menubar Settings Configure Konqueror... Cookies... or the K menu Preferences Web Browsing Cookies selection to bring up a dialog box with two tabbed pages; Policy and Management.

Policy
This page allows you to decide whether will handle cookies at all, and whether it should ask you for confirmation before accepting them.
You can also set domain specific cookie policies and even share them with other people by using the Import and Export options.

Management
This tab page is interesting because it lets you see what cookies have been placed on your machine and allows you to delete any or all of them.

Proxy Configuration
The Proxy configuration dialog box is invoked with the Menubar Settings Configure Konqueror... Proxy option, or with the K menu Preferences Web Browsing Proxy choice.
A proxy connection to the Internet is one that is made through another machine, usually a LAN (Local Area Network) server, and can give you improved security by separating the computers connected to the local network from the wide open world of the Internet itself. A proxy server can also cache downloaded files to give you faster access to recent downloads.
Proxy servers are traditionally associated with a local intranet within an organisation, but are now also used by some Cable Network ISPs who connect their customers living near to each other onto a local area network to improve the overall average performance of the cable network.
If you are on a LAN, the proxy is perhaps the only way you can connect to the web, in which case you need to ask your system administrator or ISP for connection details.
To configure to work with your proxy server, open the Proxies Configuration dialog box, check Use Proxy and fill the fields according what your system administrator or ISP has told you.
Of course, the proxy shouldn't be used to access a machine on your local network. So, in the No Proxy for: field, type the names of local machines on your network separated by commas. This is usually the domain name of your ISP or your company. For example, if you're on the Ireste school network, you would type ireste.fr, intranet, intranet being the machine where the intranet web server is located. This is important if you are on a LAN because the proxy won't find the internal machines.
The Use Cache option in the dialog box is not really a proxy option. It allows you to choose to store (cache) downloaded pages on your local disk so they need not be downloaded again the next time you access them. We advise you to use this option (whether you use a proxy or not) unless you are short of disk space in your home directory.

Cryptography
Choosing the Menubar Settings Configure Konqueror... Crypto or the K menu Preferences Personalization Crypto option brings up a dialog box that lets you configure SSL, certificates and other cryptography settings. Use the Default settings unless you really know what you are doing.

User Agent
Some web sites tailor their HTML pages according to the browser you are using to view them. This is done to cope with differences between browsers and is done by the web server asking for the browser's User Agent and then comparing it against a list of known browsers. Unfortunately very few web sites recognise .
To overcome this problem, you can control what reports as it's User Agent. Selecting Settings Configure Konqueror... User Agent or the K menu Preferences Web Browsing User Agent will bring up a dialog box allowing you to set the User Agent string for selected sites (for example www.kde.org) or domains (kde.org).
To add a new site or domain specific browser-identification string press the New button, fill in the details in the pop up dialog then press the Update List button. A list of suitable alternative identities is given in the drop down selection box. Note that wildcard characters such as * are not allowed in the site or domain name. Do not forget to press the Apply before closing the User Agent configuration dialog.