falkon.org rating

[Juraj Oravec]

On pondelok 27. februára 2023 10:25:48 CET Genghis Khan wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 09:55:08 +0100
> 
> Juraj Oravec <jurajoravec at mailo.com> wrote:
> > On pondelok 27. februára 2023 9:31:26 CET Genghis Khan wrote:
> > > On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 09:10:14 +0100
> > > 
> > > Juraj Oravec <jurajoravec at mailo.com> wrote:
> > > > On pondelok 27. februára 2023 8:37:48 CET Genghis Khan wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > > Falkon website is rated 0.
> > > > > https://www.mywot.com/scorecard/falkon.org
> > > > 
> > > > Nicely rounded number.
> > > > 
> > > > > I don't know why, given that this website index *has* "not yet
> > > > > rated" status.
> > > > 
> > > > Most probably because normal people install Falkon from system
> > > > repositories and never / very rarely need to visit the website.
> > > 
> > > It doesn't matter. Look into personal websites (your, for
> > > example),
> > > most have no rating, which is *not* 0.
> > 
> > My little blog is an oddball, I do not intend to have any reader
> > there. It is made purely for me.
> 
> I'm a subscriber of your blog, using the Atom feed.

Thank you.

> > > > > I didn't contact that service on this matter.
> > Best regards,
> > Juraj.
> > > > 
> > > > After a very quick check on this phishing site I conclude they
> > > > do
> > > > not
> > > > have enough data to show how reliable the site is. Be it me I
> > > > would wait for more reviews before creating a rating.
> > > 
> > > My guess is that another employee or a user of another browser is
> > > responsible for this, or a company paid that service to set up
> > > that
> > > rating.
> > > 
> > > > There is nothing we can do about that.
> > > 
> > > We can contact them, no?
> > 
> > Do as you wish.
> 
> OK.
> 
> > > > It is a fun fact though.
> > > 
> > > Yes, but since this service has an extension for the orange animal
> > > and the blue marble, I fear it would influence potential new
> > > users.
> > 
> > Most people install Falkon from repositories and never ever visit
> > its
> > website. Only people using weird operating systems without the
> > repositories havr to search for weird websites to download programs
> > from.
> > 
> > > Falkon, is a good web browser and is considered to be from the
> > > most
> > > trustworthy web browsers enumerated at Spyware Watchdog.
> > > https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/falkon
> > 
> > Falkon has outdated AdVlock-er, so many will quickly leave. While
> > Falkon does not try to leak data to web on its own, this one missing
> > feature is very important for many and the main reason why people do
> > not use Falkon that much these days.
> 
> I consider myself as end-user, so I'd argue on this.
> What could Falkon AdBlock be missing?
> 
> The only feature I'm missing is uMatrix, and pretty much anything else
> is available as a form of a bookmarklet and userscript.

For uMatrix we have some basics done somewhere and missing the whole UI 
for it, so it is still waiting to be finished.

> Though, it would be good to establish a channel (forum), dedicated for
> extension porting to Falkon, for contributors to join.

You can start the forum if you want.

What I want to finish is to put the tutorials and docs on:
https://develop.kde.org/
https://develop.kde.org/docs/extend/
https://api.kde.org/

> QML seems to be good for building GUI, inside and outside Falkon.

QML sucks a bit.
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/distributions/2023-February/001339.html
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/distributions/2023-February/001340.html

In light of that the Plugin loader needs to be improved to report the 
missing modules to people.

Also the OSC url support needs to be improved and most probably cut into 
OSC support and PluginInstaller to be able to reuse the same code for 
manual plugin installlation (if the extension was donwloaded manually).

Those are the ideas I have but I am working on other stuff at the moment. 
I want to finish the SiteSettings feature, but for that I need to learn 
more about Falkon and Qt development in general, that is why I play with 
various parts of Falkon. And the UI design is killing me, guess I will 
just copy something.

> > > > The Falkon website should be remade into KDE style in the
> > > > future,
> > > > it is just takes a lot of effort to get it done somehow.
> > > 
> > > Speaking of which, it would be nice to update falkon.org.
> > > I'm willing to volunteer for this task, until KDE style is remade.
> > 
> > https://invent.kde.org/websites/falkon-org
> > Go and unleash your creativity.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> > Best regards,
> > Juraj.
> 
> Kind regards,
>   --GK~

Best regards,
Juraj
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