QupZilla renamed Falkon and ...

[Bings]

I installed the Falkon snap. It doesn't have any extensions loaded into it yet. It does have the session manager though, which I think is a great idea. The proprietary video codecs work in this as opposed to not being there in the appimage of Qupzilla. Also, ctrl+c and ctrl+v keybindings work in the Falkon snap, where they don't in the Qupzilla Appimage (that's been annoying the hell out of me when using the appimage!)

I'm hoping that in the future Falkon will integrate with Activities. Being able to open an activity and have the browser with everything there from last time, regardless of what you've done since in other activities, would be great.

[GreyGeek]

The snap version has spell checking.

[chimak111]

QUidsup reviews the newly released Falkon. The results are not pretty.
... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwpTgSUo4vk ...

Quid's takes a second look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiL89U83K8o

Qupzilla 2.2.2 on Kubuntu 18.04 has this as its UA string:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QupZilla/2.2.2 Chrome/[U]56[/U].0.29

[GreyGeek]

I'm using the snap version as well. I've noticed that the Star does not always save the link in the appropriate folder, storing it in "Speed Dial" instead. Using the menu option works as one would expect. I so, I do not find any installable extensions so I can't install the ability to download YT's or email a link. Anyone know where they are, if they exist.

[GreyGeek]

I've been looking for extensions for Falkon that would allow video downloads and emailing a link of a webpage. The Chromium ones do not work.
Then I noticed that when I clicked right mouse on a web page there was an option to send the link. It worked with my Thunderbird email client.
Nothing yet for video downloads.

[Bings]

If the Falkon snap package has the greasemonkey extension that Qupzilla does then you can install a script that puts a youtube video download function in.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/by-site/youtube.com

[Bings]

New Version has been released https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/...owser-released

[Bings]

I've tried installing it from the source file. Using cmake gui, I get the following error message

CMake Error at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/Qt5/Qt5Config.cmake:28 (find_package):
Could not find a package configuration file provided by
"Qt5WebEngineWidgets" with any of the following names:

Qt5WebEngineWidgetsConfig.cmake
qt5webenginewidgets-config.cmake

Add the installation prefix of "Qt5WebEngineWidgets" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
or set "Qt5WebEngineWidgets_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above
files. If "Qt5WebEngineWidgets" provides a separate development package or
SDK, be sure it has been installed.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:46 (find_package)

I don't really understand it, I've never used Cmake before. I have "libqt5webenginewidgets5" installed already but I don't seem to have those files.

[acheron]

The new release Version 3.0.0 is going into K/Ubuntu 18.04 today.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/falkon

Thanks to great collaboration today between Simon Quiqley (Kubuntu & Lubuntu) and Jonathan Riddell (KDE/Neon), plus previous packaging work by myself, clivejo, and Harald Sitter.

[acheron]

I've tried installing it from the source file. Using cmake gui, I get the following error message

I don't really understand it, I've never used Cmake before. I have "libqt5webenginewidgets5" installed already but I don't seem to have those files.

The .cmake files will be in the development package (-dev suffix).

See: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?s...rtful&arch=any

So here, qtwebengine5-dev

[dequire]

The new release Version 3.0.0 is going into K/Ubuntu 18.04 today.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/falkon

Thanks to great collaboration today between Simon Quiqley (Kubuntu & Lubuntu) and Jonathan Riddell (KDE/Neon), plus previous packaging work by myself, clivejo, and Harald Sitter.

Well that's just awesome news! Loving the new Falkon icons as well which were a recent improvement provided by the KDE VDG. Isn't it great when the community works like a well-oiled machine!

[Bings]

The .cmake files will be in the development package (-dev suffix).

See: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?s...rtful&arch=any

So here, qtwebengine5-dev

Cheers. That worked but I got errors in the make process which I don't know how to fix, so I gave up. Not a problem because I found there's actually a flatpak version which for anyone interested is installed with

flatpak remote-add –if-not-exists flathub [URL]https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo[/URL]
flatpak remote-add –if-not-exists kdeapps –from [URL]https://distribute.kde.org/kdeapps.flatpakrepo[/URL]
flatpak install kdeapps org.kde.falkon

[Bings]

What I've found so far.

I tried in 18.04 today "sudo apt install falkon" and it says "Note selecting qupzilla instead of falkon" and installs qupzilla instead.

The flatpak (in 17.10) works but works badly. It takes about four tries to get it to load. It regularly shows error messages when you first go to a page and it crashes when you try to use it to save a password with kwallet enabled.

KaOS have it as their default browser and it works fine.

[acheron]

Falkon in 18.04 needs fixing. Not me doing it, so I have no eta for that.

[Bings]

It's now available from a repository

https://launchpad.net/~tsimonq2/+archive/ubuntu/falkon