Falkon

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Falkon
Original author(s) David Rosca
Developer(s) KDE
Initial release December 2010  ( 2010-12 )
Stable release
24.05.0 [1]   Edit this on Wikidata / 23 May 2024 ; 0 days ago  ( 23 May 2024 )
Repository
Written in C++
Engine
  • Qt WebEngine
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Operating system Unix-like ( Linux , FreeBSD , etc), [2] Haiku , [3] Windows 7 or later
Platform Qt framework
Included with KaOS , openMandriva Lx [4]
Available in Multilingual
Type Web browser
License GPL-3.0-or-later
Website www .falkon .org

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]

Both KaOS and openMandriva Lx use Falkon as their default browser. [4] [9]

Features [ edit ]

Falkon provides several icon sets and other elements to match the native look and feel of users' desktop operating systems. [10] 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. [11] It is reported to consume fewer system resources than the major general purpose browsers like Firefox and Google Chrome . [12]

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 . [13]

History [ edit ]

QupZilla v1.7.0 passed the 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. [14] 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 . [15] Version 1.6.6 (May 2014) still supported Windows 2000 . [16]

On 30 March 2016, QupZilla 2.0 was released. It marked the transition from QtWebKit to Qt WebEngine. [6]

On 10 August 2017, QupZilla's developer David Rosca announced in a blog post that QupZilla had become a KDE project. [17] After the release of Qupzilla 2.2 the project was renamed to Falkon . [18] KDE Falkon 3.0 was released on 27 February 2018. [5]

Falkon 3.0.1 was included in Lubuntu 18.10 beta but replaced with Firefox in the actual Lubuntu 18.10 release. [19]

Falkon 3.2.0 was released on 31 January 2022. [20]

On 14 February 2022, Falkon started transitioning to KDE Gear by adopting the same version number. [21] Starting with version 22.04 on 21 April 2022, the first version of Falkon as part of KDE Gear was released. [22] [23] Official releases are thus announced on the KDE news website rather than the official Falkon website. [24]

See also [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ "Falkon - KDE Applications" .
  2. ^ "Qupzilla at Freshports" . Freshports . Retrieved 8 September 2022 .
  3. ^ "Haiku Depot Server" . depot.haiku-os.org . Retrieved 8 September 2022 .
  4. ^ a b "DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 821, 1 July 2019" . 1 July 2019 . Retrieved 4 July 2019 .
  5. ^ a b "Falkon 3.0 Released As The Successor To The QupZilla Browser" . Phoronix . 27 February 2018 . Retrieved 28 February 2018 .
  6. ^ a b David Rosca (30 March 2016). "QupZilla 2.0.0 released with QtWebEngine!" . QupZilla Blog . Archived from the original on 28 February 2018.
  7. ^ N?mec, Petr (28 December 2011). "Softwarova sklize?" [Software picks (28 December 2011)]. Root.cz (in Czech) . Retrieved 25 February 2012 .
  8. ^ "Qt WebEngine Overview - Qt WebEngine 5.11" . doc.qt.io .
  9. ^ Nestor, Marius (6 March 2018). "KaOS Linux Switches to Falkon Browser, March's Release Adds KDE Plasma 5.12 LTS" . Softpedia . Archived from the original on 3 April 2022 . Retrieved 3 April 2022 .
  10. ^ Голубев, Сергей (10 February 2012). "QupZilla ? браузер на основе Qt и WebKit" [QupZilla ? browser based on Qt and WebKit]. PC Week/RE (in Russian) . Retrieved 23 November 2018 .
  11. ^ Richmond, Gary (6 January 2012). "QupZilla Browser: one web browser, three niche features" . Free Software Magazine . Archived from the original on 11 January 2012 . Retrieved 25 February 2012 .
  12. ^ Sneddon, Joey (22 December 2011). "Qupzilla ? the Best Browser You've Never Heard of?" . OMG! Ubuntu! . Retrieved 25 February 2012 .
  13. ^ "QupZilla Portable 1.8.8 (web browser) Released" . PortableApps . 21 October 2015. Archived from the original on 11 August 2017.
  14. ^ "History" . falkon.org . Retrieved 4 July 2020 .
  15. ^ Chirkov, Maxim, ed. (26 December 2011). "Qupzilla ? новый многоплатформенный web-браузер на базе Qt и WebKit" [Qupzilla ? new multiplatform web browser based on Qt and WebKit]. OpenNet (in Russian) . Retrieved 25 February 2012 .
  16. ^ David Rosca (10 October 2014). "Cookies issue + Build for Mac OS X available!" . Development updates on QtWebKit browser QupZilla . Archived from the original on 26 March 2018 . Retrieved 29 January 2015 . the latest 1.8 version is not working on Windows 2000
  17. ^ "QupZilla is moving under KDE and looking for new name" . Archived from the original on 26 March 2018.
  18. ^ "QupZilla Web Browser Becomes KDE Falkon" . Phoronix . 25 August 2017 . Retrieved 26 August 2017 .
  19. ^ Simon Quigley We've replaced Falkon with Firefox , retrieved 21 April 2020
  20. ^ "Falkon 3.2.0 released - Falkon" . www.falkon.org .
  21. ^ "use version number of kde gear (14171e29) · Commits · Network / Falkon · GitLab" . GitLab . 14 February 2022 . Retrieved 9 September 2022 .
  22. ^ "KDE Gear 22.04.0 Full Log Page" . KDE Community . Retrieved 9 September 2022 .
  23. ^ Pablinux; Pablinux (21 April 2022). "KDE Gear 22.04 arrives with new features for its suite of apps" . Ubunlog . Retrieved 9 September 2022 .
  24. ^ "Announcements" . KDE Community . Retrieved 9 September 2022 .

External links [ edit ]

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