Falkon is a free and open source web browser for Linux, windows and MacOS. Actually QupZilla was renamed to Falkon and moved to KDE infrastructure. It is based on QtWebEngine which is based on Chromium. Falkon is a simple and light weight web browser from kde. It comes with bookmarks, history, RSS reader, Ad blocker, Click2Flash, SSL manager, session manager, password manager, extensions support and more.
How to Install Falkon web browser on Ubuntu Linux
Falkon is available as a flatpak and snap package files. First you need to install the latest version of flatpak and flathub on your system and restart it after the installation. If you don’t have then follow below link for the installation instructions.
Open the terminal command line app using the ctrl+alt +t keys and run below Falkon browser flatpak installation command. It will install the latest version of Falkon on your system.
flatpak install flathub org.kde.falkon
After the installation you can open the browser using this command.
flatpak run org.kde.falkon
And uninstall it using this command.
sudo flatpak uninstall org.kde.falkon
Install Falkon web browser via snap:
You can also install it using the snap command. In the terminal run below Falkon snap install command to install it.
sudo snap install falkon
ANd uninstall it using below command.
sudo snap remove falkon
That’s it.
