Falkon (formerly QupZilla) is a free and open-source web browser, intended for general users. Falkon is licensed under GPLv3.
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Features
Falkon makes use of Qt WebEngine to support modern web standards. It provides several icon sets and other elements to match the native look and feel of users' desktop operating systems. 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. It is reported to consume fewer system resources than the major general purpose browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
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.
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History
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. 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. Version 1.6.6 (May 2014) still supported Windows 2000.
On 30 March 2016, QupZilla 2.0 was released. It marked the transition from QtWebKit to Qt WebEngine.
On 10 August 2017, QupZilla's developer David Rosca announced in a blog post that QupZilla has become a KDE project. After the release of Qupzilla 2.2 the project will be renamed to Falkon. KDE Falkon 3.0 has been released on 27 February 2018.
See also
- Comparison of lightweight web browsers
- Comparison of web browsers
- List of web browsers
- List of web browsers for Unix and Unix-like operating systems
- QtWeb, older browser with a similar architecture
References
External links
- Official website and blog
- QupZilla on GitHub
- QupZilla's wiki
- Falkon at Open Hub
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