Falkon browser

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Falkon is a lightweight Desktop web browser and supports the BSD, Linux, Windows operating systems. It is developed by KDE. It has been developed for about 16 years since launching in 2010.

Falkon (formerly QupZilla) is a free and open-source web browser developed by KDE. It is built on the QtWebEngine, which is a wrapper for the Chromium browser core.

About Falkon

Browser URL www.falkon.org
Browser made by KDE
Development Status Active
The browser is actively maintained and developed
Launched 2010
Operating Systems BSD, Linux, Windows
Device platform Desktop
Rendering Engine QtWebEngine
Source Code Repository
Lightweight Browser Falkon omits some mainstream features in order to reduce system resource & memory usage.
Formerly known as QupZilla
Wikipedia Article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkon
URL Code Repo
2018-05-10
 Github: QupZilla
The old QupZilla code repository; before it was renamed to Falkon

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