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Thunar VS Falkon

Compare Thunar VS Falkon and see what are their differences

Thunar logo Thunar

Thunar is a modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment.

Falkon logo Falkon

Falkon, formerly QupZilla, is a QtWebEngine based cross-platform web browser.
  • Thunar Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-09-25
  • Falkon Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-06-25

Thunar videos

Showing Thunar file browsers preferences

More videos:

  • Review - Comparing File Managers - Nautilus Versus Thunar Versus Nemo
  • Review - Add Custom Actions to Thunar File Manager

Falkon videos

A look at: Falkon 3.0.0 and DuckDuckGo

More videos:

  • Review - MarQ Falkon Aerbook Laptop First Looks & Overview

Category Popularity

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FTP Client
100 100%
0% 0
Web Browsers
0 0%
100% 100
File Manager
100 100%
0% 0
Web Development Tools
0 0%
100% 100

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Thunar might be a bit more popular than Falkon. We know about 4 links to it since March 2021 and only 3 links to Falkon. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Thunar mentions (4)

Falkon mentions (3)

  • Every minimal web browser on my old laptop
    - falkon: Well, not exactly minimalist but not so bloated either...... Maybe if only it had vimium (any one want to write the extension for it with me?). Source: over 1 year ago
  • Am I the only one who dislike Firefox?
    Vieb and qute are based on chromium and are keyboard controled, agregore it's lighter in his revision 2 so you know, and finally falkon it's a web browser based in the qtweb engine which is a little bit heavier and I prefer his old version called qupzilla this one it's the link to vieb, this one to qute browser which is based o qt web engine too for agregore this one is the link and finally this one is the link... Source: about 2 years ago
  • What browser do you mainly use?
    Falkon Falkon is a KDE web browser using QtWebEngine rendering engine, previously known as QupZilla. Source: over 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Thunar and Falkon, you can also consider the following products

Midnight Commander - GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and...

Pale Moon - Pale Moon is an Open Source, Mozilla-derived web browser available for Microsoft Windows and Linux, focusing on efficiency and ease of use.

Nemo - Nemo is the official file manager for the ...

Brave - Fast and secure, ad and tracker blocking browser.

Double Commander - Double Commander is a cross-platform open source file manager with two panels side by side.

Vivaldi - Vivaldi is a free, fast web browser designed for power-users. You decide how you browse. Download Vivaldi's fully customisable browser now and browse your way.