Here’s the Deal
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When comparing Falkon vs Basilisk, the Slant community recommends Falkon for most people. In the question“What are the best desktop web browsers?” Falkon is ranked 4th while Basilisk is ranked 23rd.
Specs
Based OnQupZilla
Browser EngineQt WebEngine (Blink)
LicenseOpenSource (GPLv3)
Default Search EngineDuckDuckGo
Based OnMozilla Firefox
Browser EngineGoanna (Gecko-fork)
LicenseOpenSource (MPL)
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Pros
Pro Developed by KDE
Pro Lightweight
Pro Free and Open Source
GPLv3 license.
Pro Open Source
So the source code can be verified.
Cons
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.
Con Nobody uses it
Con Security risk
Con Limited WebRTC support
Con Licensed under MPL
which one of the more restrictive open source licenses.
Con Uses Goanna
A Gecko fork that is developed by mostly one developer.
Con Only available for Intel based cpu architectures
it is only available for ix86 and amd64.