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In the migration from 3.x to 4.x, the KDE developers decided to make a rather bold move: replace KDE's file browsing function with Dolphin. Now before I get into this rant, I want to say that Dolphin isn't horrible, it's just that Konqueror was probably one of the finest file managers available - on any platform. That being said...

The KDE developers decided that Konqueror was best served as a stand-alone Web browser and they wanted to focus their efforts as such. Okay, I understand the desire to have the best possible Web browser available. But Linux already has that in Firefox. So why bother? Why not keep Konqueror as the KDE file manager that just happens to also function as a browser. That, to me, makes much more sense than the route the developers have chosen.

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