&Pamela.Roberts;
2010-05-16
&kde; 4.5

# Plugins

## &Netscape; Plugins

Currently, &konqueror; supports &Netscape; plugins.

Selecting Settings Configure Konqueror... opens the configuration dialog. Select the Plugins page, where you find two tabs; Global Settings to enable plugins and configure how they are used in &konqueror; and the Plugins which shows you the &Netscape; plugins that &kde; has found and allows you to scan for plugins.

For more information see the Browser Plugins help page.

## &konqueror; Plugins

The &kde; module extragear contains several useful plugins that interact with &konqueror; in various ways. These are explained briefly below.

Use Settings Configure Extensions... to open a dialog with all installed plugins and select the ones you need. All plugins are accessible in the Tools menu.

### Browser Mode

Web Page Translation

  This uses AltaVista's BabelFish site to translate the current HTML page to whatever language you want (within reason). It can be launched with Tools Translate Web Page.

DOM Tree Viewer

  Selecting Tools Show DOM Tree opens a new window which displays the document object model (DOM) of the current HTML page.

HTML Validator

  This is started with Tools Validate Web Page Validate HTML. It uses the W3C HTML validator to validate the current page, very useful when creating web pages.

CSS Validator

  Started with Tools Validate Web Page Validate CSS, it uses the W3C CSS validator to validate the current page's Cascading Style Sheets.

HTML Settings

  Select Tools HTML Settings to enable or disable a number of HTML settings without going through the Settings dialog.

User Agent Changer

  Select Tools Change Browser Identification to get a menu that allows you to change the User Agent string without going through the Settings dialog procedure.

Archive Web Page

  Invoked with Tools Archive Web Page, this tool creates an archive (`.war` ) file containing the web page being viewed including the images. Left click on the archive file name to view the saved page.

### Filemanager Mode

Folder View Filter

  This is controlled by Tools View Filter and allows you to choose which types of item are displayed in a folder.

Image Gallery

  In File Manager mode, you can select Tools Create Image Gallery to create an HTML page with thumbnails of all the images in the current folder. By default the HTML page is called `images.html` and the thumbnails are put into a new `thumbs` folder.

Search Bar

  Provides a text box for easy access to search engines like Google. Clicking on the icon on the left side of the search box opens a menu to select and enable different search engines and configure their Web Shortcuts.

Shell Command Plugin

  This plugin enables you to execute a shell command in the current folder and view the output in a separate window.