Last Wednesday I had the idea to install SUSE 9.1 on my machine. Though not SUSE's fault, it sure was the most unpleasant experience since a _long_ time (wrt computers, that is).
Apparently, because of the Novell takeover, the SUSE distribution (the physical shipping of stuff) is a bit of a mess. As such I'm waiting for over 4 weeks or so to receive the package on my work, but being eager to see what's in this new distribution I decided to use some copies of the CD's from my uncle and went ahead installing. That is, after I made some tarballs of important stuff and put them on my second HD. During the initial booting of the CD's I noticed the CD worked somewhat slow, the drive was spinning up and down and only slowly the menu appeared. When it was booted however, it worked like a charm. I wiped my first HD, spent some time doing the package selection and started installing. But when the copying of packages started I noticed how slow the CD really was. The drive was spinning and ticking like a mad man and when the first estemated time was shown it said 4 and a half hours remaining. That kinda sucked, especially as it was 1am...

Okay, so I made some progress implementing the Google search bar. You can now find it in CVS in kdeaddons/konq-plugins/searchbar. As it's just a simple Konqueror plugin, it doesn't have to get in your way. It uses the default searchprovider as selected in Konqueror under the Web Shortcuts settings, so it's not limited to Google only. I hope to get some feedback from you so I can improve on it.

As I downloaded KDE 3.2 RC1 some while ago and KDE 3.2.0 today, I started using Konqueror as my primary browser as it has improved immense since 3.1. Now I want to share some ideas for improving Konqueror the Browser.