Falkon browser
This page was last updated at: Feb 25, 2026
Falkon (formerly QupZilla) is a free and open-source web browser developed by KDE. It is built on the QtWebEngine, which is a wrapper for the Chromium browser core.
Falkon is a lightweight web browser that runs on Desktop devices.
About Falkon
| Browser URL | www.falkon.org |
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| Browser made by | KDE |
| Development Status |
Active The browser is actively maintained and developed
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| Launched | 2010 |
| Operating Systems |
BSD,
Linux,
Windows
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| Device platform | Desktop |
| Rendering Engine | QtWebEngine |
| License | GPL 3.0 or later |
| Source Code Repository? | Falkon has a public source-code repository |
| Lightweight Browser | Falkon omits some mainstream features in order to reduce system resource & memory usage. |
| Formerly known as | QupZilla |
Get Falkon
| Source Code Repository | https://invent.kde.org/network/falkon |
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Further links
| Wikipedia Article | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkon |
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URL Code Repo
2018-05-10
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Github: QupZilla
The old QupZilla code repository; before it was renamed to Falkon
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