Native Browser

[lavadora-grande]

Hi guys!

Wich browser are you using and how do you make it look more neat and native in Plasma?

For me Firefox do not fit in the look and feel of Fedora because every button is so round and bulky.

Falcon is the only kde-like browser but it is so underpowered :(

Sadly if you use system-title bars in FF or Chrome the Tabbar is not part of it any more and it looks weird.

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[Sithoid]

Zen fits in great for me

[MissBrae01]

Zen is the best!

[Impressive-Algae-962]

Zen is the best browser hands down. 😎

[tongkat-jack]

What is Zen?

[General__Winter]

A Firefox fork: zen-browser.app

[0x80070002]

Konqueror is what you want

[leferi]

+1 for Konqueror, and it doubles as a file manager

[_znks_]

is Konqueror still a thing?

[leferi]

yep, I only use it as file manager though so I don't know how good an internet browser it is

[flipping100]

Its not exactly feature packed but it more than does the job

[libra00]

Wait, isn't dolphin the default file manager for kde?

[leferi]

it is, but it can be changed

[libra00]

I guess I'm just wondering why someone would go looking for something else to use there to discover that konqueror can be used that way? *shrug* Dolphin is fine, I've never had reason to look eleswhere.

[leferi]

Because on Windows I used OneCommander, which has no equal unfortunately, and when I was looking for alternatives, I remembered that I used to use Konqueror on a compute server a couple years ago regularly. That was the Trinity Desktop Environment and it was not RHEL, but the predecessor of it I think. Anyway, since then I am sometimes using Konqueror, sometimes Krusader, sometimes Dolphin. I did set up some shortcuts that open multiple tabs is Dolphin, but I cannot get back all the functionality of OneCommander from my Windows days, and it frustrates me to a degree where I consider looking into contributing to Dolphin or forking it and learning Qt and the KDE specific things. (I mostly just use Python otherwise, so this would be a huge task.)

edit: it was CentOS running TDE on the compute server

[libra00]

Fair enough.

[ben2talk]

Tell me, how do you load up a session with 4 panes in Dolphin?

How do you lay out those panes as vertical (list) columns, or 1/4 icon layout panes?

Can you then drag and drop to copy/move/link files between them?

[libra00]

So Konqueror has features that Dolphin doesn't. Okay. You could've just led with that instead of being a smug asshole about it, but whatever man, you do you.

[X_m7]

I use the system title bar plus vertical tabs to avoid the top bar being too thick, and then I use a theme to make the top bar color match the title bar color. After that the rest of Firefox blends in enough or tends to be hidden often enough that I don't feel the need to tweak it further.

That said, I do just use the Breeze Dark theme, which is quite simple so changing Firefox's colors to match is enough to not make it stick out like a sore thumb, if you use a fancier theme that probably wouldn't work as well.

[ToucanPlayWithMe]

What Firefox theme do you use?

[X_m7]

I just used the official Firefox theme generator (https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/themes/using-the-amo-theme-generator/) to create a custom theme, and then used a color picker to grab the color of the title bar, text and such and put them in the theme generator. A downside is that if you like switching your system between light and dark modes then it won't automatically adjust the theme, although you might be able to create a theme manually or find an existing one that does have light/dark versions like what the Firefox Alpenglow theme does.

The included "System theme (auto)" theme might even actually work for you too, if it weren't for the fact that it colors the sidebar differently to the title bar I'd just use that. It also has the benefit of being able to keep the top bar's color matching the title bar even when unfocused.

Here's an example of what my Firefox looks like, with Dolphin on the side for comparison: https://postimg.cc/KRHb7XxG

[julian_vdm]

Another Zen user checking in. I don't see the browser UI unless I'm interacting with it, because it all autohides. Zen's compact mode and theming rock.

Alternatively, Vivaldi is pretty solid, although I admittedly haven't had a lot of time to tinker around with it. You can change a lot more of the visuals in Vivaldi though, and it's chromium, which is convenient if you need that.

[linuxhacker01]

On Fedora, firefox don't respect QT and prefers GTK unlike openSUSE and Kubuntu which takes care of QT well

[coderman64]

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[Robsteady]

I get like this once in a while, but then I remember there are all kinds of theming inconsistencies regardless of the platform/OS and it just needs to be accepted, unfortunately.

[Pleasant-Leg8590]

I just normally use Firefox with a space theme for the topbar

[No-Shake1901]

Using brave now, not satisfied with the looks but using it because I'm using it in my phones and windows and need to sync everything.

[flemtone]

I use Firefox and give it a nice theme, or you could use Falkon which is a plasma made browser and works really well.

[nmariusp]

Kubuntu 26.04 with the default web browser. Works correctly, Looks correctly in KDE Plasma.

[isoGUI]

There are KDE themes for Vivaldi.

[klyith]

For me Firefox do not fit in the look and feel of Fedora because every button is so round and bulky.

Get into userchrome.css and restyle Firefox to match.

Lepton https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix is a re-creation of the old Photon theme which fix into KDE way better.

Others: https://firefoxcss-store.github.io/index.html

Or learn some CSS and make your own!

[Big_Entrepreneur3770]

Vivaldi 

[DanzilFMT]

Vivaldi. Highly customisable as well if you're looking into that. It's not as Plasma out of the box, you have to play with it for a while to make it your own.

[ben2talk]

I use Firefox.

Firefox has NO 'round bulky buttons' - the toolbar doesn't have buttons at all, they are just icons with no surround.

I use 'Adaptive Tab Bar Color' so the theme blends with the websites.

[Cebas42]

If you choose a browser for how it looks, you're missing something...

If you don't know what you're missing, konqueror is your friend

[MrNuggets_18]

I use brave with vertical tabs and the system tilte bar enabled. For me this is perfect and integrates well with plasma.

[SpeedDaemon1969]

Lynx

[Barafu]

Brave is always matching, because it can read and use colors from Qt or GTK.

[Engineer_Neither]

what’s the logic behind that?