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magbenji

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Friday, May 18th 2007, 9:47pm

Konqueror and rendering

Hi all,

I'm running KDE 3.5.6 on Gentoo and I'm having some problems with Konqueror. In general it seems to do a good job of rendering webpages, but I have trouble with some. For example, http://my.yahoo.com has section called "Today" that normally cycles through some interesting news stories. I think it uses flash to do the cycling, but I'm not sure. Konqueror seems unable to render/use flash to display this portion of the page correctly. Another example of this is http://www.cnn.com that normally has an advertisement requiring flash player at the right hand side of the page (not that I really want to see the ad).

The weird thing is, I have flash installed (Adobe v 9.0) and Konqueror clearly uses flash correctly and is fully functional on some pages (e.g. http://www.espn.go.com is loaded with flash elements). Does anyone have an idea why Konqueror is using flash on some pages and ignoring it on others?

Thanks!

Rinse

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Friday, May 18th 2007, 11:03pm

I think there are two possibilities:

1 - konqueror is not capable in rendering those website properly.
2 - the webserver of yahoo/cnn does not consider konqueror as a valid browser and shows an alternative webpage with less functionality.

For the latter, you can try to change the browser agent of konqueror for those websites (see tools-> change browser identification). This works in most cases, but not in all.
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magbenji

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Friday, May 18th 2007, 11:48pm

Thanks for the hints... changing the browser ID helped with the Yahoo page :) Unfortunately, it didn't fix the problem with some of the other pages.