Falkon

New Falkon version 23.08.0 is being released as part of KDE Gear. Notable changes Zoom indicator to the AddressBar When the zoom level on the page is different than the default, show current zoom level in the address bar. Address bar with ... [More] zoom label Expand address bar suggestion popup to the window width It is possible to widen the address bar suggestion popup to the window width. This option is disabled by default, but it can be useful on smaller screens. Expanded address bar suggestion popup Permanent certificate exceptions Certificate exceptions can now be stored indefinitely. There is also a GUI to see and manage the current exceptions which is located at [Preferences > Other > Certificate Exception Manager] Contributed by Javier Llorente. Certificate exception manager Changelog A bit faster restoring of session with a lot of tabs Add support for custom URI schemes (BUG: 434099) Add CMake option “BUILD_PYTHON_SUPPORT” to enable/disable Python support Add zoom indicator to the addressbar (BUG: 399001) Add an option to expand addresbBar suggestion popup to the window width Implement a GUI for managing ignored SSL hosts (by Javier Llorente) Add KDE branding bookmarks and speeddial entries (By Javier Llorente) Implement download integration with Plasma (By Javier Llorente) Download: ffalkon-23.08.0.tar.xz (sig signed with EBC3FC294452C6D8) [Less]

New Falkon version 23.04.0 is being released as part of KDE Gear. Notable changes There is a handful of changes in this release. KWallet The format under which the passwords are stored has changed from Binary to Map. The passwords can now be ... [More] viewed from within KWalletManager and even edited. While editing and adding new ones I would be careful with the data field and updated that as well. (This is some Falkon password internal mechanic) The Folder under which the passwords are stored changed from Falkon to FalkonPasswords. This was done to not overwrite the old passwords and potentialy ruin them during the migration to new format. Support for dark color scheme Note: This is NOT browser dark mode support. Falkon internal pages now respect the dark color scheme, if it is forced through chromium flags in environment variable. A small demonstration can be seen below. The color scheme might not be the best since it was designed on display with weird color settings. Falkon: Light and Dark styled page Changelog Look for spellchecking dictionaries at location specified by QTWEBENGINE_DICTIONARIES_PATH environment variable Show QtWebEngine version on Falkon Config page Implement prefers-color-scheme (dark mode) for internal pages Add option to enable GPU acceleration (by Hao Chi Kiang) PyFalkon: addBookmark - make C++ own parameters (fixes potential crash) KWallet: Store passwords in a map format History: Don’t delete all items under dates when filtering AdBlock: Workaround for “Blocked content” page AddressBar: Search with default search engine by default Fix crash when adding new folder to the bookmark toolbar Fix: Bookmarks folder disappears when moving it onto itself Download: ffalkon-23.04.0.tar.xz (sig signed with EBC3FC294452C6D8) [Less]

New Falkon version is now out. Changelog Add support for Screen Capture (Qt 5.13.2+) Option for internal PDFium-based viewer (Qt 5.13+) CookieManager: Add support for selecting more than one cookie at once Correct the sorting for cookies ... [More] white- and black- lists Speeddial: decode initialScript data as Utf8 Set current tab as parent for duplicated tab add support for detaching tabs via context menu (BUG 443947, !22 from Fran Rogers) BookmarksManager: Don’t allow to create bookmark without parent Remove the padding of the bookmark bar Added context menu item to bookmarks toolbar for creating folder Preferences: Add links to KDE store for installing themes/extensions OcsSupport: Add initial support for downloading themes/extensions Add filter to preferences extensions page SideBarManager: Clear active sidebar upon close Added focus for searchbar in history sidebar & bookmark sidebar SearchToolBar: Remove warning message that no results were found SearchBar - Show number of matches found on page search added pause/resume for downloads Prompt user when KWallet is disabled KDEFrameworksIntegration: Create Purpose menu in init GreaseMonkey: Fix detecting *.user.js urls Added QLoggingCategory to Falkon Handle web push notifications with Falkon notification system Fix name and set desktop entry for notifications NetworkManager: Fix QtWebEngine warning about registering schemes Don’t use subfolders for QML/Python extensions ThemeManager: Implement removing locally installed themes Plugins: Implement removing locally installed plugins Plugins: Use embedded JSON metadata for shared library plugins RunAction plugin: set alternatingRowColors for listWidget VerticalTabs: Accept click event on tree collapse VerticalTabs: Draw unloaded tabs with “Disabled” color palette VerticalTabs: Add child tab with middle click on “New Tab” button VerticalTabs: Corectly recognize tree collapse / expand button VerticalTabs: Also override Ctrl+PgUp/PgDown shortcuts Download: falkon-3.2.0.tar.xz (sig signed with EBC3FC294452C6D8) [Less]

New Falkon version is now out. Changelog add support for writing plugins in QML add MiddleClickLoader Python plugin add page sharing to KDE Frameworks Integration plugin add basic support for client certificates (QtWebEngine >= 5.12) ... [More] add support for registering custom protocol handlers (QtWebEngine >= 5.12) change search bar appearance to match other KDE apps use DBus instead of lockfile/socket to check and communicate with other instances (Linux) #404494 whitelisted cookies are no longer deleted when deleting all cookies Python plugin support is now stable close entire tree after middle click on collapsed tabs in VerticalTabs plugin #399217 fix some compatibility issues with QtWebEngine up to 5.12 fix some possible crashes in AdBlock fix builds with standalone QtWebEngine releases Download: falkon-3.1.0.tar.xz (sig signed with EBC3FC294452C6D8) [Less]

New Falkon version is now out. Changelog add support for writing plugins in QML add MiddleClickLoader Python plugin add page sharing to KDE Frameworks Integration plugin add basic support for client certificates (QtWebEngine >= 5.12) ... [More] add support for registering custom protocol handlers (QtWebEngine >= 5.12) change search bar appearance to match other KDE apps use DBus instead of lockfile/socket to check and communicate with other instances (Linux) #404494 whitelisted cookies are no longer deleted when deleting all cookies Python plugin support is now stable close entire tree after middle click on collapsed tabs in VerticalTabs plugin #399217 fix some compatibility issues with QtWebEngine up to 5.12 fix some possible crashes in AdBlock fix builds with standalone QtWebEngine releases Download: falkon-3.1.0.tar.xz (sig signed with EBC3FC294452C6D8) [Less]

First bugfix release is now out. Binary builds Starting with this release, there are official builds available for Linux and Windows platforms. In addition to nightly Linux Flatpak builds, there is now also AppImage for stable releases. For ... [More] Windows, there are 32 and 64-bit installers, which now includes both standard and portable versions. State of macOS port is currently in bad shape, so there won’t be any macOS builds until the situation changes. Builds are available on Download page. Changelog added profile migration from QupZilla fix incorrectly completing form data on some sites #391327 fix showing incorrect state of back and forward buttons #391331 fix loading urls containing %20 from location bar #392445 fix save page action for downloading text files #391300 fix download manager trying to closing not restored tabs #392565 fix updating location bar site icon after using paste and go action #392747 fix various issues with QtWebEngine 5.11 #392885, #393398 fix speed dial sometimes loading with no pages #391875 fix leaving html fullscreen after closing tab #393797 fix saving speed dial settings when there are no configured pages fix restoring nested crashed sessions fix setting minimum height of bookmarks toolbar VerticalTabs: fix preserving expanded state of times inside collapsed parent #393567 VerticalTabs: don’t force open sidebar when opening new window #393629 Download: falkon-3.0.1.tar.xz (sig signed with EBC3FC294452C6D8) [Less]

First bugfix release is now out. Binary builds Starting with this release, there are official builds available for Linux and Windows platforms. In addition to nightly Linux Flatpak builds, there is now also AppImage for stable releases. For ... [More] Windows, there are 32 and 64-bit installers, which now includes both standard and portable versions. State of macOS port is currently in bad shape, so there won’t be any macOS builds until the situation changes. Builds are available on Download page. Changelog added profile migration from QupZilla fix incorrectly completing form data on some sites #391327 fix showing incorrect state of back and forward buttons #391331 fix loading urls containing %20 from location bar #392445 fix save page action for downloading text files #391300 fix download manager trying to closing not restored tabs #392565 fix updating location bar site icon after using paste and go action #392747 fix various issues with QtWebEngine 5.11 #392885, #393398 fix speed dial sometimes loading with no pages #391875 fix leaving html fullscreen after closing tab #393797 fix saving speed dial settings when there are no configured pages fix restoring nested crashed sessions fix setting minimum height of bookmarks toolbar VerticalTabs: fix preserving expanded state of times inside collapsed parent #393567 VerticalTabs: don’t force open sidebar when opening new window #393629 Download: falkon-3.0.1.tar.xz (sig signed with EBC3FC294452C6D8) [Less]

Falkon is a new KDE web browser, previously known as QupZilla. Following this release, there will only be one last final QupZilla release. If you were previously using QupZilla, you can manually migrate your profiles to Falkon by moving the config ... [More] directory (usually in ~/.config/qupzilla/). There is no automatic migration. Apart from some under the hood changes, like changing build system from qmake to CMake or using XDG paths, there aren’t many differencies from QupZilla. There is a new extension - Vertical Tabs, but it will also be available later this week in last QupZilla release. It is possible to write Falkon extensions in Python, but since the bindings are generated using PySide2 which is not yet released and thus not packaged by distributions, it won’t be currently available for users. Windows and macOS support is not yet finished, it will be available later. Download: falkon-3.0.0.tar.xz (sig signed with EBC3FC294452C6D8) [Less]

Falkon is a new KDE web browser, previously known as QupZilla. Following this release, there will only be one last final QupZilla release. If you were previously using QupZilla, you can manually migrate your profiles to Falkon by moving the config ... [More] directory (usually in ~/.config/qupzilla/). There is no automatic migration. Apart from some under the hood changes, like changing build system from qmake to CMake or using XDG paths, there aren’t many differencies from QupZilla. There is a new extension - Vertical Tabs, but it will also be available later this week in last QupZilla release. It is possible to write Falkon extensions in Python, but since the bindings are generated using PySide2 which is not yet released and thus not packaged by distributions, it won’t be currently available for users. Windows and macOS support is not yet finished, it will be available later. Download: falkon-3.0.0.tar.xz (sig signed with EBC3FC294452C6D8) [Less]

KDE has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code again this year. If you are a student, check out ideas list and submit your proposals! There are currently also two ideas for Falkon, which you may apply for: JavaScript/QML extensions support Plasma integration