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When comparing Epic Privacy Browser 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 Epic Privacy Browser is ranked 49th.
Specs
Based OnChromium
Browser EngineBlink
LicenseEULA
Based OnQupZilla
Browser EngineQt WebEngine (Blink)
LicenseOpenSource (GPLv3)
Default Search EngineDuckDuckGo
Ranked in these QuestionsQuestion Ranking
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Pros
Pro One-click proxy
Pro No tracking
Pro Always-on private browsing
Pro Developed by KDE
Pro Lightweight
Pro Free and Open Source
GPLv3 license.
Cons
Con Proxy only, NOT VPN
Inbuilt Proxy. IP leak possible.
Con Very few extensions available
Con Limited functionality
Some false positive alerts may lead to limited functionality in certain occasions.
Con A bit on the slow side
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.