Falkon 25.04 Release notes

Friday, 18 April 2025  |  Falkon

This release includes new features and fixes for AdBlock, VerticalTabs, stability fixes, more usability features and translation updates.

General changes

  • Add input method hints to main input fields (url, search bar, etc.).
    • This allows on-screen keyboards to show more appropriate symbols or disable the auto correct feature.
  • Show the URL of bookmark and history items in statusbar when hovered over in the menu or sidebar (BUG: 448238)
  • Open all URLs in command line arguments (BUG: 413195), (Original author: abogical (Abdel-Rahman Abdel-Rahman))
  • Add “Preffer color scheme” option (BUG: 439891), (BUG: 497331)
  • Add option to add site permissions in preferences (BUG: 495391)
  • VerticalTabs: Override Alt+NUMBER keyboard shortcut
  • StatusBarIcon-Network: Restore online status detection
  • KDEIntegration: Fix KIO scheme handler (BUG: 491247)
  • Add option to block automatic popups
  • Qt 6.9 compatibility fixes

AdBlock

  • Add support for “rewrite” filter
  • Add support for remove rule with simple CSS selector
  • Ignore inactive hiding rules
  • Add support for “websocket” option
  • Rewrite Adblock Dialog (fixes crashes)
AdBlock dialog, Left: old version, Right: New version

Changelog

  • PyFalkon: port away from deprecated API (by Ilya K)
  • PyFalkon: Disable broken tests (by Juraj Oravec)
  • Update CHANGELOG for 25.04.0 release (by Juraj Oravec)
  • Fix crash when loading folder in bookmarks toolbar (by Juraj Oravec)
  • CI Flatpak - Add desktop notifications permission (by Justin Zobel)
  • CI Flatpak - Add kwallet6 dbus permission (by Justin Zobel)
  • CI Flatpak - Sort finish arguments (by Justin Zobel)
  • CI Flatpak - Update flatpak runtime (by Justin Zobel)
  • snapcraft: Fix crash by disabling webengine sandbox, we are already a (by Scarlett Moore)
  • CI: Add linux-qt6-next build (by Albert Astals Cid)
  • Add input method hints to input fields (by Juraj Oravec)
  • Select newly opened tabs from links and scripts (by Juraj Oravec)
  • Fix SiteSettings autotest (by Juraj Oravec)
  • Adblock: Add support for “rewrite” filter (by Juraj Oravec)
  • AdblockDialog: Add model for the tree view (by Juraj Oravec)
  • Adblock: Add support for remove rule (by Juraj Oravec)
  • Show history & bookmark url in menu on mouse hover (by Juraj Oravec)
  • Block automatic popups (by Juraj Oravec)
  • Use global settings for WebRTC on internal pages (by Juraj Oravec)
  • VerticalTabs Override Alt+NUMBER keyboard shortcut (by Juraj Oravec)
  • AdBlock: Ignore inactive hiding rules (by Juraj Oravec)
  • Adblock: Add support for “websocket” option (by Juraj Oravec)
  • AdblockDialog: Apply filter when tab changes (by Juraj Oravec)
  • SiteSettingsDialog: Add context description for “Set” button (by Juraj Oravec)
  • SBI-NetworkIcon - Restore online status detection (by Juraj Oravec)
  • Open all URLs in command line arguments (by Juraj Oravec)
  • Remove obsolete XSS Auditing option, has no effect (by Juraj Oravec)
  • CookieManager: Fix crash when removing while/black list items (by Juraj Oravec)
  • PyFalkon: Add missing Qz::ColorScheme enum type (by Juraj Oravec)
  • Add “Preffer color scheme” option (by Juraj Oravec)
  • Strip incorrect color iCCP profile from png images (by Juraj Oravec)
  • Preferences: Fix editing per site user agent (by Juraj Oravec)
  • Use angle backend for GPU acceleration on Qt 6.9+ (by Juraj Oravec)
  • Add missing default SiteSettings for intenal pages (by Juraj Oravec)
  • Add option to add site permissions in preferences (by Juraj Oravec)
  • PyFalkon: Remove warning about QCborStreamReader (by Juraj Oravec)
  • Update Changelog (by Juraj Oravec)
  • Port away from QLocale:Country related code (by Juraj Oravec)
  • B KIO scheme handler (by Juraj Oravec)
  • Add missing settings.endGroup() when needed (by Juraj Oravec)