Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Falkon browser devtools error 'this site can't be reached'

 In KDE Falkon web browser when I open devtools it shows the Chrome error

This site can’t be reached
The webpage at devtools://devtools/bundled/inspector.html might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
ERR_FAILED

Error seen at command line is  

js: Uncaught ReferenceError: Components is not defined
[15261:15261:0220/235200.401700:ERROR:CONSOLE(1)] "Uncaught ReferenceError: Components is not defined", source: chrome-error://chromewebdata/ (1)

Solution is to install package qt5-qtwebengine-devtools

 

 

Tuesday, February 06, 2024

Falkon browser startpage search does not work

Installed Falkon browser and noticed when I search with startpage it just redirects me to startpage homepage.  Played with the URL and postdata settings some and it just kept doing the same thing.  Even if I used a format that worked in Firefox the same thing would not work in Falkon.  Eventually I got this format to work for using Falkon and startpage as the default search engine.

https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?cat=web&language=english&q=%s

Falkon browser no menu and certificate errors

 Recently installed Falkon web browser and right away I was getting SSL certificate errors on every site I went to.  Then I noticed there was no menu button / icon either.  Seemed very odd.  When trying to find out what Falkon I installed realized I accidentally installed this

falkon.i686

instead of this

falkon.86_64

After I switched to the falkon.86_64 package everything was normal.

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