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KHTML on Windows part III

EDIT: There is now a part IV of this serie.

I have two times written about ways of getting a KHTML browser (Konqueror) to work on Windows (Win32). If you are interested I wrote, part I and part II where I tell you the why, who and when. The first guide was quite complex, the second guide a bit easier but not dead easy. Now it is time for my third try, I think this one my grandmother could grasp.

The really easy way to get Konqueror up and running on Windows in 6 steps.

* Head over to WMware and download their Free version of WMware Player.
* Install WMware Player, if your firewall screams just OK that.
* Next, go to this page and download the SUSE 10 with KDE 3.5 WMware Player image.
* Unzip the file, the folder should contain a few files.
* Fire up WMware Player, the program will ask for a image file, find the folder you just unzipped.
* Your firewall might scream, just OK that.

Now SUSE loads and after a while you are greated with the SUSE desktop and Konqueror is loaded, just head over to any website of your choice.

Done, easy as that, Konqeror on Windows in 6 steps. Be amazed of the speed of using WMware Player and that networking just works.

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19 comments

  1. EastTexas
    2006.01.12 at 8:31 pm

    Is it better than FireFox and Opera?

  2. Jens
    2006.01.15 at 8:04 pm

    Safari, based on KHTML was the first browser to pass the Acid2 test, so it is good.

  3. Woland
    2006.06.28 at 2:31 pm

    There is another way.
    There is a “KHTML on Win32 Native” project on sourceforge.
    I think it is the best, but I can’t guarantee it, since I use Linux.

  4. Jens
    2006.06.28 at 3:18 pm

    Thanks Woland, the project you are pointing to, is it alive, if looking at the page, it has not been updated since 2004. You have any other information on that?

  5. Woland
    2006.06.28 at 3:33 pm

    I don’t know.
    I found it when I googled for “KHTML windows”.

  6. Rohan Dhruva
    2006.06.28 at 4:16 pm

    No Jens, the first browser to pass Acid2 was konqueror. Safari could pass it only in the development release – i.e. not a released version everyone could use and actually verify the fact. (That’s not to say that apple developers were lying, ofcourse !)

  7. Jens
    2006.06.28 at 4:25 pm

    Rohan, you are absolutely correct, a minor brain error from my part ;)

  8. Aaike
    2006.08.15 at 9:36 am

    i recently came across Swift , its a new windows browser that is based on the apple Webkit Rendering engine used by safari (Webkit is based on the KHTML engine)

    i havent had a lot of time to test it yet, but i was already very happy after running a few basic javascript tests, it seems to support everything Gecko does including the unnoficial methods like __definegetter__ etc…

  10. Jens
    2006.08.15 at 12:03 pm

    Thanks Aaike for the comment. I did write a part IV in this series just about Swift. You can find it here

    http://jedisthlm.com/2006/08/07/khtml-aka-safari-on-windows-part-iv/

  11. ALL
    2006.09.24 at 9:11 am

    just wanted to say… AWESOME tip… been looking for a way to get KDE without actually installing a unix… but i guess an emu will work.

    Now i can actually view the JS errors KDE/Safari gives without trying to find someone with a mac!

    Thanks again,
    -ALL

  12. Jens
    2006.09.27 at 6:32 pm

    Nice that I could help out.

  13. j
    2008.09.05 at 9:45 pm

    I like this solution, but I notice that you don’t say 6 easy steps, Since VMWare makes it so difficult to download their products…

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