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W3M VS Falkon

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W3M logo W3M

w3m is a text-based web browser as well as a pager like ' ...

Falkon logo Falkon

Falkon, formerly QupZilla, is a QtWebEngine based cross-platform web browser.
  • W3M Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-06-22
  • Falkon Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-06-25

W3M

Categories
  • Rental Property Management
  • Automation
  • Web Browsers
  • Home Improvement
Website w3m.sourceforge.net
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Falkon

Categories
  • Web Browsers
  • Web Development Tools
  • Web Tools
  • Customisable Web Browser
Website falkon.org
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W3M videos

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Terminal-based Web Browsing with w3m - Lunduke Show

More videos:

  • Review - nVLC Browser Extension for W3M - Linux TUI
  • Review - w3m-img -- View Images in the Console - Linux CLI

Falkon videos

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A look at: Falkon 3.0.0 and DuckDuckGo

More videos:

  • Review - MarQ Falkon Aerbook Laptop First Looks & Overview

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to W3M and Falkon)

W3M

Falkon

Web Browsers
38 38%
Web Browsers
62% 62
Rental Property Management
100 100%
Rental Property Management
0% 0
Web Development Tools
16 16%
Web Development Tools
84% 84
Automation
100 100%
Automation
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, W3M should be more popular than Falkon. It has been mentiond 10 times since March 2021. 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.

W3M mentions (10)

  • dnf update is downloading ImageMagick?
    [code]Installed Packages Name : w3m-img Version : 0.5.3 Release : 57.git20220429.fc37 Architecture : x86_64 Size : 32 k Source : w3m-0.5.3-57.git20220429.fc37.src.rpm Repository : @System From repo : fedora Summary : Helper program to display the inline images for w3m URL : http://w3m.sourceforge.net/ License : MIT and UCD Description : w3m-img package... Source: over 1 year ago
  • Setting up lynx
    You should check w3m http://w3m.sourceforge.net/. Source: over 1 year ago
  • The sad truth
    Try http://w3m.sourceforge.net some day. :). Source: about 2 years ago
  • w3m rocks
    Does anyone have a chart/rundown of why we should choose links/lynx/w3m? The old main page calls links / lynx "neighbors"... http://w3m.sourceforge.net/ I use links (gentoo user here), but I do not really see a huge difference between the three. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
  • Is Firefox the only alternative to all the chromium-based browsers?
    Lynx is pretty good, but I personally like w3m. Source: over 2 years ago
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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: about 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing W3M and Falkon, you can also consider the following products

Lynx.invisible-island.net - Thomas Dickey is the maintainer/developer of the Lynx text-browser. This page gives some background and pointers to Lynx resources.

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.

Links - Links is a graphics and text mode web browser, released under GPL. Links is free software.

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

Browsh - A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers

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.

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