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Falkon support theming so that you can choose how your browser looks. Multiple extensions are also available to help you make Falkon adapt to you.
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Falkon integrates inside Plasma and follows Plasma theming preferences.
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Falkon is Open Source and you can browse, edit and share the source code. Falkon is Made By KDE, a community building high-quality projects that your are free to use. Check out all our projects!
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Sunday, 15 December 2024
Falkon 24.12 Release notes
This release includes fixes for GreaseMonkey, VerticalTabs, Navigation bar
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Y_Y
> Falkon is a KDE web browser using QtWebEngine rendering engine, previously known as QupZilla. It aims to be a lightweight web browser available through all major platforms. This project has been originally started only for educational purposes. But from its start, Falkon has grown into a feature-rich browser.
While I applaud competition among browsers, I think that the renderer/webengine is such a big external component nowadays (especially if you lump in the JavaScript engine) that it might be more accurate to say that you're providing a skin, rather than a new browser.
Anyway I miss Konqueror and am happy to see any of its descendants carry on its legacy.
(QtWebEngine is derived from Chromium – https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtwebengine-overview.html )
Gualdrapo
Been using as my sole web browser on a daily basis since it was called Qupzilla, maybe for 10+ years as I switched to it from reKonq.
I really like it because it's fully and truly integrated with KDE, not needed a whole sort of patchs to integrate to it like Firefox needs to.
It's actually great. Not sure about the "Qt doesn't upgrade WebEngine often enough" in other comment (what is "ofteh enough"? I got several updates for it over the year) and of course it can be lagging from stuff from mainstream, but I think for 99% of users it's just fine.
Granted, you can't use Chrome/Firefox plugins, which may it seem not worthy to some people, but there's a basic adblock and greasemonkey extensions shipped with it with default which blocks most of stuff and even you can install a script to speed up youtube ads so that annoying ad will run out in a sec or less. Apparently you can write your own plugins for it but last time I wrote to one of its devs the api wasn't even documented.
There are some quirks on it, though, like the user agent thing – I set up as the latest chrome user agent for every website except accounts.google.com where I left it as the one shipped with Falkon so it lets me sign in, and yet it shows a warning about "upgrading" to another browser.
Ironically, such "warning" also shows up when browsing discuss.kde.org. Yes, the very KDE discussion board warns you against using KDE's own web browser.
Since some years ago I have a silly idea about a plugin that transforms tabs into some sort of Vim buffer list thing that can be filtered by the url bar, but am too incompetent about C++.
thom
Can I open a KWord document in a tab though?
seba_dos1
Falkon's fine, but it's important to remember that it's just Chromium with KDE/Qt UI on top.
tbet33
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ksec
From Wiki
Falkon (formerly QupZilla[5]) is a free and open-source web browser developed by KDE. It is built on the QtWebEngine,[6][7] which is a wrapper for the Chromium browser core.[8]
franze
What I want: I want a browser without security restrictions, that can run node.js code as well as not CORS restricted fetch.
Wanted to code my own via electron, but damn, it was slow.
butz
There is another web browser build on KDE libraries – Angelfish. While it is marketed as "webbrowser for mobile devices", it has a desktop interface too. This one could be more easy to get into and help with development, as it is quite recent and does not have a lot of legacy features.
cardanome
I still remember fondly the KDE 3.5 times when we had Konqueror. The best browser AND file manager in one. It was amazing.
Then the KDE 4 enshittification came and they had to have a separate file manager with half the features. Bad times.
amelius
Question. What modern browser gets containers right?
(Firefox was almost there, but the containers don't sync over multiple devices.)
Sunspark
I took a look at Falkon, it's not for me. The autoscroll is not as smooth as the regular browsers and their adblock isn't as good either.
holowoodman
I'd like that with a portion of vimperator please :)
sdsd
I feel so trapped in this current computing paradigm where we're all running Chromium and Firefox is bad. I don't think it's substantially better than the days when sites were built to run in IE, since the solution to incompatibility has apparently involved moving the "browser" is really just a VM now.
On mobile it's even worse, with computing largely being removed entirely, replaced by "apps" that just deliver "content" and monetize their control over the algorithm. Or even worse, don't monetize it, but leverage it as a source of power. Zuck and Elon openly say govs were doing that with their platforms, but they hardly seem reliable. Maybe it's much much worse, maybe they exaggerated.
Urbit is more fun in theory but the community is just a bunch of rw chuds trying to get thiel bucks. Maybe computers just aren't that interesting now. At least, you have to be more creative than before. I've been doing some fun stuff. Anyway, /rant