Currently 3 diffrents web browsers are being maintained (Konqueror, Falkon and Angelfish). There are all tree fonctional and usable but there all miss features that for me is essential for a modern browser. Here some features that I believe would make browsing much more enjoyable:
- Extention support
- Strong tracker/ad blocker
- Vertical tabs
- Workspace managment (Similar to how virtual desktop works)
Of course this is only my personal view of what should look like a web browser.
Unfortunatly I can’t really help doing it considering my poor coding knowledge but I can help establishing a big picture of it. I know that much of what i said is a huge technical chanlenge and we currenly lack of ressources. I’m just deaming of a web browser that we can proundly ship as default without having the IE syndrome.
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Personally I’m not a fan of vertical tabs over horizontal, but then again I have a small screen and horizontal bars just have more real estate.
An actual competitor to the big two of Firefox/Chromium would be neat, but let’s be real, it does need certain features in order for people to NOT take one look and then swap back to a “normal” browser. …Which may be the ‘IE syndrome’ you mentioned:
“What is my purpose?”
“I open you up one time per install to navigate over to the download page for the browser I actually want to use, and then after that, you sit there unused for eternity.”
“…Oh my God.”
Granted, while that’s funny… let’s be real in that that’s not what would happen, specifically because Konsole and Discover both exist; those apps would be how the user installs Firefox/Chromium.
…The issue is that, for me, two important features are password management and the ability to install plugins; both of those features basically keep me locked in the Firefox realm despite… certain recent new features they’ve released. grumblemumble
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Vertical tabs is not for everyone. I enjoy using it but it should not be a default because most peoples are used to horizontal tabs.
Yeah the “IE syndrom” i’m talking about is more about being a default app but it’s used only to figure out that firefox/chrome is better in any ways
Agree. Plugins would be a nightmare to implement mostly because we have no extention repo. I heard about a webkit based browser compatible with both Firefox and Chrome extention but it’s closed source : Orion Browser by Kagi
As for me,Ublock support the most needed function in Falkon/Konqueror.If say about over functions Falkon the best
Konqueror is still not available as a flatpak.
I opened a bug report a while ago : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508969
Falkon implemented vertical tabs recently. You kinda need to dig in the settings for it tho. The ad blocker needs work, but if you add your own lists it works well enough.
Is the verticals tabs an extention ? If so I already tested it and it’s fonctional but it don’t hide the standard tab bar and lack of polishing. All three are fonctional browsers with lots of features (except Angelfish which is bear bone). The main issue here is that it feel sometimes dated and/or unmature.
In short my main critisism is that it work but lack of serious polishing and user friendlyness.
Falkon seems to be under active development so why don’t you contact the developers and see if this is something that they are looking into or maybe work on adding it yourself and if successful than maybe see if they can merge the changes to their git.
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