Falkon

Falkon
White-blue colored globe
QupZilla with Chinese user interface showing its official website
Falkon 3.0.0 running in KDE Plasma 5
Original author(s) David Rosca
Developer(s) KDE
Initial release December 2010 (2010-12)
Stable release
3.0.1 (8 May 2018 (2018-05-08)[1]) [±]
Repository
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Development status Active
Written in C++
Operating system Unix-like (Linux, FreeBSD,[2] macOS,…), OS/2, Haiku, Windows 7 or later
Available in Multilingual
Type Web browser
License GPLv3
Website www.falkon.org

Falkon (formerly QupZilla[3]) is a free and open-source web browser. It is built on the Qt WebEngine[4][5] which is a wrapper for the Chromium browser core.[6]

Features

Falkon provides several icon sets and other elements to match the native look and feel of users' desktop operating systems.[7] 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.[8] It is reported to consume fewer system resources than the major general purpose browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.[9]

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.[10]

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.[11] 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.[12] Version 1.6.6 (May 2014) still supported Windows 2000.[13]

On 30 March 2016, QupZilla 2.0 was released. It marked the transition from QtWebKit to Qt WebEngine.[4]

On 10 August 2017, QupZilla's developer David Rosca announced in a blog post that QupZilla has become a KDE project.[14] After the release of Qupzilla 2.2 the project will be renamed to Falkon.[15] KDE Falkon 3.0 has been released on 27 February 2018.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Rosca, David (8 May 2018). "Falkon 3.0.1 released". Falkon.
  2. ↑ "Qupzilla at Freshports". Freshports. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Falkon 3.0 Released As The Successor To The QupZilla Browser". Phoronix. 27 February 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  4. 1 2 David Rosca (30 March 2016). "QupZilla 2.0.0 released with QtWebEngine!". QupZilla Blog.
  5. ↑ Němec, Petr (28 December 2011). "Softwarová sklizeň" [Software picks (28 December 2011)]. Root.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  6. ↑ "Qt WebEngine Overview - Qt WebEngine 5.11". doc.qt.io.
  7. ↑ 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 25 February 2012.
  8. ↑ Richmond, Gary (6 January 2012). "QupZilla Browser: one web browser, three niche features". Free Software Magazine. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  9. ↑ Sneddon, Joey (22 December 2011). "Qupzilla – the Best Browser You've Never Heard of?". OMG! Ubuntu!. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  10. ↑ "QupZilla Portable 1.8.8 (web browser) Released". PortableApps. 21 October 2015.
  11. ↑ "README.md". GitHub. 25 April 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ David Rosca (10 October 2014). "Cookies issue + Build for Mac OS X available!". Development updates on QtWebKit browser QupZilla. Retrieved 29 January 2015. the latest 1.8 version is not working on Windows 2000
  14. ↑ "QupZilla is moving under KDE and looking for new name". blog.qupzilla.com. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  15. ↑ "QupZilla Web Browser Becomes KDE Falkon". Phoronix. 25 August 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
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