Falkon browser is a program tours on the KDE Web that uses the QtWebEngine rendering engine, formerly known as QupZilla.
The purpose of the project is to create a light browser that is available on all major platforms.
The poject initially started only for educational purposes. But from the beginning, Falkon has evolved into a browser with many features.
Falkon browser has all the standard ones functions that you expect from a web browser. Includes bookmarks, history (and sidebar) and tabs. The browser has ad blocking enabled by default since it has the AdBlock plugin integrated.
The first version of QupZilla was released in December 2010 and was developed in Python with PyQt4 bindings. After a few releases, QupZilla has been rewritten from scratch in C++ with the Qt Framework. The first public release was 1.0.0-b4.
Until 2.0, QupZilla used QtWebKit. But QtWebKit is no longer used and all new versions use QtWebEngine.
From 3.0 and then QupZilla is not growing and the new version was released under the name Falkon from the KDE project.
So Falkon browser and QupZilla are the same product, and branding is designed to improve the impression.
Once you use the browser, you'll be surprised. As mentioned before, it has Adblocking, spell check, it's simple and very fast.
The Falkon browser during my testing was stable, did not make any mistakes and in general, it worked fine.
However, as a new project, it does not have a track record that demonstrates the development team's commitment to updates and security patches. I hope that with the browser being taken over by the KDE project, development will continue steadily.
It is worthwhile to try it.
Falkon browser Windows
Falkon-3.0.1.exe - for 32-bit Windows
Falkon-3.0.1-x64.exe - for 64-bit Windows
Linux browser balcony
Look for falkon at your repository
AppImage
Falkon-3.0.1.AppImage - for 64-bit Linux
Flatpak
Nightly builds are available at the kdepps of the flatpak repository.
flatpak remote-add -if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo flatpak remote-add -if-not-exists kdeapps -from https://distribute.kde.org/ whereapps.flatpakrepo flatpak install kdeapps org.kde.falkon flatpak run org.kde.falkon
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