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When comparing Whale 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 Whale is ranked 63rd.
Specs
Based OnChromium
Browser EngineBlink
LicenseProprietary
Based OnQupZilla
Browser EngineQt WebEngine (Blink)
LicenseOpenSource (GPLv3)
Default Search EngineDuckDuckGo
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Pros
Pro You have privacy and it's very fast
You have privacy, you are not tracked. And it's very fast, low RAM usage but still very fast. Never crashes, very stable.
Pro Developed by KDE
Pro Lightweight
Pro Free and Open Source
GPLv3 license.
Cons
Con Too outdated on Firefox
Con Adblock doesn't work
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.