Falkon

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This article is about the browser. For the footballer, see Lee Falkon. For other uses, see Falkon (disambiguation).
Falkon
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Falkon homepage
Falkon 3.1.0
Original author(s) David Rosca
Developer(s) KDE
Initial release December 2010 (2010-12)
Stable release Lua error in Module:Wd at line 405: invalid escape sequence near '"^'. / Lua error in Module:Wd at line 405: invalid escape sequence near '"^'.; Error: first parameter cannot be parsed as a date or time. (Lua error in Module:Wd at line 405: invalid escape sequence near '"^'.)
Written in C++
Operating system Unix-like (Linux, FreeBSD, etc),[1] Haiku,[2] Windows 7 or later
Included with openMandriva[3]
Platform Qt framework
Available in Multilingual
Type Web browser
License GPL-3.0-or-later
Website www.falkon.org

Falkon (formerly QupZilla[4]) is a free and open-source web browser. It is built on the Qt WebEngine[5][6] which is a wrapper for the Chromium browser core.[7]

As of July 2019, openMandriva uses Falkon as the default browser instead of Firefox.[3]

Features

Falkon provides several icon sets and other elements to match the native look and feel of users' desktop operating systems.[8] Some additional features of the browser include the integration of history, web feeds and bookmarks in a single location, the ability to take a screenshot of the entire page, and an Opera-like "Speed dial" home page.[9] It is reported to consume fewer system resources than the major general purpose browsers like Firefox and Google Chrome.[10]

Falkon uses the Qt cross-platform application framework and offers a built-in AdBlock. By default this adblocker whitelists the web page of Falkon's main search engine, DuckDuckGo. A "portable" (no installation) version for Windows platforms exists. Falkon is also distributed in the PortableApps format.[11]

History

QupZilla v1.7.0 passed Acid3 test.

The project was started as a research project in 2010. The first preview release, written in Python (using PyQt library), was ready by December 2010.[12] In 2011 the source code was rewritten in C++ with a goal to create a full-featured general purpose portable web browser based on QtWebKit, with the initial target being visual integration with the look and feel of multiple desktop environments including Microsoft Windows, GNOME, and KDE Plasma.[13] Version 1.6.6 (May 2014) still supported Windows 2000.[14]

On 30 March 2016, QupZilla 2.0 was released. It marked the transition from QtWebKit to Qt WebEngine.[5]

On 10 August 2017, QupZilla's developer David Rosca announced in a blog post that QupZilla had become a KDE project.[15] After the release of Qupzilla 2.2 the project was renamed to Falkon.[16] KDE Falkon 3.0 was released on 27 February 2018.[4]

Falkon 3.0.1 was included in Lubuntu 18.10 beta but replaced with Firefox in the actual Lubuntu 18.10 release.[17]

The most recent release was 3.2.0, made on 31 January 2022.[18]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  17. ↑ Simon Quigley We've replaced Falkon with Firefox, retrieved 21 April 2020
  18. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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