Managing Passwords; Configuring Preferences - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - KDE Getting Started Manual

1. To search the current Web page for keywords with
Konqueror, press Ctrl
your search keyword and press Enter.
2. To search the current Web page with Firefox, press
+ F to open a find bar at the bottom of the window.
Enter your search keyword there and use the buttons
beneath the bar to search in different directions or to
highlight all hits in the text.
Konqueror offers Web shortcuts for quickly searching the
Web. For example, to search the Web for yast using the
Google search engine, just type gg:yast into the Kon-
queror location bar (or the Run Command dialog) and press
Enter.
Apart from predefined shortcuts such as gg for Google or
wp for Wikipedia, you can also define further, individual
Web shortcuts as described in Section "Configuring Prefer-
ences".
Downloading Files from the Web
If you download a file with Firefox or Konqueror, a dialog
window appears asking you if you want to save the file. In
Konqueror, you then need to specify the location for the
file. Firefox by default saves the file to the folder configured
in the Firefox Preferences and shows your finished downloads
in the Downloads dialog.
To open the downloaded files directly from there, right-
click and select Open. To clean up the history of download-
ed files, right-click and select Clear List.

Configuring Preferences

To adjust Konqueror or Firefox to your needs and wishes,
both browsers offer configuration dialogs. In Konqueror,
access the configuration dialog with Settings → Configure
Konqueror. To change the behavior of Konqueror as Web
browser, select one of the Web Browsing categories in the
left sidebar to show the options for the respective category.
For example, you can "hide" Konqueror's real identity and
make Konqueror identify as a different browser (for exam-
ple, Internet Explorer*) for certain Web sites you visit. To
do so, select Browser Identification, and click New to add a
new, site-specific identification.
+ F to open a Find dialog. Type
Ctrl
You might also want to configure the Web shortcuts you
can use with Konqueror (and the Run Command dialog).
In the Konqueror configuration dialog, click Web Shortcuts
to see which shortcuts are already defined. Click New to
define new shortcuts. Leave the Konqueror configuration
dialog with OK to apply your changes.
In Firefox, select Edit → Preferences to open the Firefox
Preferences. Click the icons in the upper display field to ac-
cess the options for the respective category. For example,
change the default download folder on the Main page, or
adjust the pop-up blocking feature on the Content page.
Click Close to apply the changes.

Managing Passwords

When you enter a password in a KDE application for the
first time (in KMail or Konqueror, for example), you are
asked if you want to store the password in an encrypted
wallet. If you click Yes, KWallet wizard starts by default.
KWallet is a password management tool that can collect all
passwords and store them in an encrypted file.
To activate KWallet, select Basic Setup and click Next. Select
Yes, I wish to use the KDE wallet to store my personal infor-
mation and enter a password. This is your master password
to open KWallet. It cannot be recovered if you forget it.
Click Finish to close the wizard. After this initial configura-
tion, you can open your wallet at any time to view, search,
delete, or create entries. Normally you do not need to insert
an entry manually. KDE recognizes if a resource requires
authentication and KWallet starts automatically, prompting
you for the KWallet password.
Whereas KWallet is designed to centrally manage passwords
for several KDE applications, Firefox also offers the ability
to store data when you enter a username and a password
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