I do quite like the look and use of Falkon and would gladly ditch Firefox for it.
But page load times seem pretty bad.
When I use the scrollbar to move a side up and down, it seems rather sluggish or even lagging.
And the Lemmy website interface does not seem to work at all in Falkon. It keeps loading for a very long time or forever, and once it loads the new content from a new page, it still displays the content from the previous page at the top. Falkon also makes these weird orange borders around the main area of any Lemmy page when I click anywhere inside it.
It feels like a broken mess, and since I don’t think anyone would recommend a browser like that, I feel that there has to be something broken on my end.
I’m running Fedora 38 with KDE on my computer. If Falkon runs well on any computer, this one should be one of them. Any idea what the issue might be?
So opinion here is that it’s just a crappy browser?
I wouldn’t say it’s a bad browser for regular web browsing if you just want a vanilla browsing experience. It integrates well with KDE Plasma theming and does come with an ad blocker built in and the ability to customize the browser through scripting. Past that it just doesn’t have a lot of the bells and whistles (such as variety in extensions) that other browsers have. I prefer having at least a few privacy extensions and a better ad blocker installed so it’s a deal breaker for me for daily driving. If you don’t mind something more minimal like that it works just fine.
Too bad KDE rather develop three(!) completely independent browsers than to just combine resources and all three are based on QtWebEngine. So there is Falkon which only has a desktop GUI. Then there is Angelfish that has a smartphone GUI, a tablet GUI, and also a desktop GUI. Recently they released a browser for TVs – why they did not just add a fourth GUI to Angelfish: Nobody knows. Why Angelfish wasn’t just developed as Falkon 3.0: Nobody knows.
Well, the issue is that it doesn’t work on my Fedora 40 KDE computer.