Setting the Home Page in Konqueror

Konqueror, while a great browser, has taken a step in the direction of IE. Like IE, Konqueror is really an integrated web and file browser. You can use it equally well to view web pages and files on your system. It’s been something of a hot debate whether this is actually the proper use of a browser. In fact, Galeon was written specifically to answer this question - it’s a web browser and a web broswer only.

Regardless, it can be a bit annoying to punch the Home button on the Konqueror browser and end up in your /home/user directory. Have no fear, though. It’s an easy change to make your actual web home page the home page in Konqueror.

Open Konqueror and select Settings from the toolbar. Select “Configure Konqueror,” and leave the default selection of “File Manager” as is. In the text box on the right half of the screen, you’ll see a tilde in the “Home URL” text box. That just tells Konqueror to use the user’s home directory as the home URL. Changing this to a web address will set that address as your home page. Select OK to close the window.

Taking it one step further, click on the Home button in your Konqueror browser to open your newly-configured web home page. Then, select “Window” and “Save View Profile, ‘Web Browsing.’” This will futher save the URL and allow your the opportunity to save the window size when the browser opens.

Konqueror is more than just a web browser. But, it’s not so tough to make it act like a pure web browser if you just know where to look.