by 0x54MUR41 on 3/8/25, 4:51 AM with 117 comments
by Gualdrapo on 3/8/25, 11:36 AM
I really like it because it's fully and truly integrated with KDE, not needed a whole sort of patchs to integrate to it like Firefox needs to.
It's actually great. Not sure about the "Qt doesn't upgrade WebEngine often enough" in other comment (what is "ofteh enough"? I got several updates for it over the year) and of course it can be lagging from stuff from mainstream, but I think for 99% of users it's just fine.
Granted, you can't use Chrome/Firefox plugins, which may it seem not worthy to some people, but there's a basic adblock and greasemonkey extensions shipped with it with default which blocks most of stuff and even you can install a script to speed up youtube ads so that annoying ad will run out in a sec or less. Apparently you can write your own plugins for it but last time I wrote to one of its devs the api wasn't even documented.
There are some quirks on it, though, like the user agent thing - I set up as the latest chrome user agent for every website except accounts.google.com where I left it as the one shipped with Falkon so it lets me sign in, and yet it shows a warning about "upgrading" to another browser.
Ironically, such "warning" also shows up when browsing discuss.kde.org. Yes, the very KDE discussion board warns you against using KDE's own web browser.
Since some years ago I have a silly idea about a plugin that transforms tabs into some sort of Vim buffer list thing that can be filtered by the url bar, but am too incompetent about C++.
by Y_Y on 3/8/25, 10:28 AM
While I applaud competition among browsers, I think that the renderer/webengine is such a big external component nowadays (especially if you lump in the JavaScript engine) that it might be more accurate to say that you're providing a skin, rather than a new browser.
Anyway I miss Konqueror and am happy to see any of its descendants carry on its legacy.
(QtWebEngine is derived from Chromium - https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtwebengine-overview.html )
by sdsd on 3/8/25, 6:19 PM
On mobile it's even worse, with computing largely being removed entirely, replaced by "apps" that just deliver "content" and monetize their control over the algorithm. Or even worse, don't monetize it, but leverage it as a source of power. Zuck and Elon openly say govs were doing that with their platforms, but they hardly seem reliable. Maybe it's much much worse, maybe they exaggerated.
Urbit is more fun in theory but the community is just a bunch of rw chuds trying to get thiel bucks. Maybe computers just aren't that interesting now. At least, you have to be more creative than before. I've been doing some fun stuff. Anyway, /rant
by butz on 3/8/25, 2:04 PM
by seba_dos1 on 3/8/25, 12:05 PM
by thom on 3/8/25, 11:45 AM
by Sunspark on 3/8/25, 3:46 PM
by amelius on 3/8/25, 2:37 PM
(Firefox was almost there, but the containers don't sync over multiple devices.)
by cardanome on 3/8/25, 2:08 PM
Then the KDE 4 enshittification came and they had to have a separate file manager with half the features. Bad times.
by IYasha on 3/9/25, 2:56 PM
by holowoodman on 3/8/25, 4:54 PM
by snvzz on 3/9/25, 8:12 AM
>It is built on the QtWebEngine, which is a wrapper for the Chromium browser core.
by ksec on 3/8/25, 1:32 PM
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]
by franze on 3/8/25, 1:39 PM
Wanted to code my own via electron, but damn, it was slow.
by pabs3 on 3/9/25, 8:54 AM