Here’s the Deal
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When comparing surf vs Falkon, the Slant community recommends Falkon for most people. In the question“What are the best desktop web browsers?” Falkon is ranked 4th while surf is ranked 30th.
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Based OnQupZilla
Browser EngineQt WebEngine (Blink)
Default Search EngineDuckDuckGo
LicenseOpenSource (GPLv3)
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Pros
Pro No bloat
Pro Very simple
Pro Developed by KDE
Pro Lightweight
Pro Free and Open Source
GPLv3 license.
Cons
Con Outdated rendering engine
Not much left in website since google left.
Con Has google as is default search engine
Which is quite often for this "privacy" browser.
Con No user interface
Con Weak multimedia support
It has some issues with multimedia content eg. Non-playing videos on webpages.
Con Now under the KDE umbrella
Qupzilla is now discontinued and renamed to Falkon. It will also now be a part of KDE and will probably need more dependencies like kde-frameworks in the future.
Con Linux-only
Con Bookmark management not the strongest part
It often requires quite a lot of clicks to add and remove bookmarks.