^{Browser Names > Falkon}

Falkon

• Developer: KDE
• Development Status: Active
• Released: 2018
• Platforms: Windows, Linux
• Type: Browser
• Rendering Engine: Blink

Overview

Falkon is a Qt-based web browser developed by the KDE project.

Related Browsers

These browser projects are connected through KDE:

Browser	Description
QupZilla	Falkon's original name.
Falkon	The KDE browser that replaced QupZilla.
Konqueror	KDE's web browser and file manager.
Rekonq	A discontinued browser developed for KDE.

History

Falkon is the new name for the Qt-based browser previously called QupZilla. The name changed when the project moved to KDE.

User-Agent Examples

Linux

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Falkon/3.0.0 Chrome/61.0.3163.140 Safari/537.36

Code Example

import { UAParser } from 'ua-parser-js';
import { BrowserName } from 'ua-parser-js/enums';

const parser = new UAParser();
const ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Falkon/3.0.0 Chrome/61.0.3163.140 Safari/537.36';

const browser = parser.setUA(ua).getBrowser();

console.log(browser);
// {name: "Falkon", version: "3.0.0", major: "3"}

console.log(browser.is(BrowserName.FALKON));
// true