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K-Meleon vs Falkon

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When comparing K-Meleon vs Falkon, the Slant community recommends Falkon for most people. In the question“What are the best desktop web browsers?” Falkon is ranked 8th while K-Meleon is ranked 40th.

Specs

Based OnMozilla Firefox ESR

Browser EngineGoanna (Gecko-fork)

Based OnQupZilla

Browser EngineQt WebEngine (Blink)

Default Search EngineDuckDuckGo

LicenseOpenSource (GPLv3)

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Pros

Pro
Secure and fully under user control

No malware/adware toolbars/extensions can be injected. You can switch off Java, JS, Flash, popups, and Ads from the toolbar or with a hotkey.

Pro
Extremely customizable

Almost every detail can be personalized:

skin
buttons (icon theme and on/off state)
toolbar placement
menus
number of settings and preferences
proxies (add and switch with ease)
locale (switch on the fly without downloads and restarts)
etc.

Pro
Fast and lightweight

Light on memory footprint: the smallest RAM amount used among all the modern browsers. Fastest application startup. Very responsive. Invaluable on the older and low-end hardware.

Pro
Highly extensible

Has hundreds of its native extensions written on its own macrolanguage.
Supports dozens of XPI-extensions for Firefox.

Pro
Native

Pro
Developed by KDE

Pro
Lightweight

Pro
Free and Open Source

GPLv3 license.

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Cons

Con
Dead

Ended in 2016.

Con
Windows only

K-meleon is only available on Windows. It was previously available on Android and Linux, but now the both discontinued.

Con
Stability issues

Con
Extremely dated interface

The UI is ugly, which is forgivable, but sticking to a setup from the early 00s makes using it clunky.

Con
Uses Goanna

Its one of the oldest gecko forks which was made by one man.

Con
Not secure

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.