Since #Chrome has dropped manifest v3 (which apparently also breaks umatrix so there goes plan B), I've given #Falkon a try as my "this web site is broken in Firefox" browser, and I've been pleasantly surprised by the results. I checked, and yes, it is Chromium under the hood, and has no extensions (Bitwarden pls) but it's a really solid browser with solid built-in adblocking.

Side note: it IS a sad state of affairs that I a second browser installed basically day one of setting up a new OS because #Firefox can no longer reliably render web pages.

I have been using the Falkon browser for a couple of weeks, and it is pretty good. http://falkon.org

I'm now trying the Falkon browser.

Is this what happens when you use KDE Plasma for the first time (i.e. trying all the K things)?

I should note, while I haven’t pushed the unstable gear 25.03.80 yet for Intel, there’s a new dep for #falkon, tesseract. I consulted the devs who have no idea why it’s being req, and I can’t find a way to disable it, but nothing else in KDE wanted it except falkon. There is about 400mb of language recognition packs for it, and I’m not shipping that. If there’s a need for more languages (I included eng, like the SBo build does), I’ll add by request or users can just install the files locally.

Today I managed to get a much more usable browsing experience on my Raspberry Pi 4 running #SlackwareARM. Switched from bloated Firefox over to nice sleek Falkon and configured my adblock lists to block out basically everything. Where on Firefox it plays sites like YT at less than 5 FPS, and Invidious at maybe 6, Falkon plays both at full speed with only the odd frame drop now and then. So much better.

If you're using a #QT #Webengine based browser like me (@qutebrowser or #Falkon), #Elsevier 's #ScienceDirect website may cause issues because they "only support the last 3 releases" of most browsers. Luckily, they use the user agent to detect the browser. So, a workaround is to use something like this, with a new enough version for the #Chrome version:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/6.8.2 Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

oh my god is #falkon good
I'm kinda shocked
but also annoyed at the missing shortcuts, and afaict it's impossible to have a single unified search+address bar, there's no vertical bookmarks, no custom search engines

yet, it feels so much more snappy than firefox

#navigateur
Heureux utilisateur de #libreWolf https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreWolf, je gardais #Firefox classique à cause de ma carte d'id (estonienne, à puce) mais à un moment, il faut arrêter les bêtises :

#zenBrowser sait utiliser le plug-in "web eID" (similaire à l'équivalent belgium eID) donc ok.
Par contre, Google, les couches de maquillage genre effet "jelly" dans tous les sens, barre d'adresse masquée par défaut, etc. c'est pas zen

#falkon pas ok pour ma carte d'id mais simple et efficace

Falkon: A KDE Web Browser — https://www.falkon.org
#HackerNews #Falkon #KDE #Web #Browser #OpenSource #Technology #Linux #Browsers

Welp, I don't know why #Mozilla does what it does, but #Firefox is cooked. What are some non-Firefox, and non-Chromium based browsers which are reasonably usable? #Falkon? #Konqueror? (yeah I'm giving Qt WebEngine a pass but what other choice do I have?)

I wish #Palemoon devs could just do things that are cool, but they seem complacent and stubborn. In my ideal world Palemoon would align itself with FOSS and we'd all use it.

#GoodMorning, good #tzag, and #TGIF!

#Listening to some music on Laut.fm's Katzenpuff station (https://stream.laut.fm/katzenpuff) as I prepare my incident tickets to resolve today and enjoy the rest of my morning #coffee which is superb. ​​

Also finally glad that #Falkon is working once again with Google's services so I can check my Gmail. ​ Yes, I do plan to get off of that at some point, hopefully this year.

This is peak computing

(#Phanpy in a #Falkon window on #JWM all running on #Debian #ARM on a #MangoPiQuad. )