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Falkon 24.12 Release notes

Sunday, 15 December 2024

This release includes fixes for GreaseMonkey, VerticalTabs, Navigation bar (security icon), stability fixes, does not advertise the FTP support, fixes printing and more small fixes.

GreaseMonkey

  1. Fixed loading of sites ending with *.user.js name. (BUG: 467459)
  2. GreaseMonkey got a support for running scripts on sites through context menu. (BUG: 469855)
GreaseMonkey context menu

VerticalTabs

  1. Enabled switching tabs with mouse wheel when the scrollbar is visible. (BUG: 394066)
  2. Pinned tabs are now arranged vertically like a normal tabs in this plugin. (BUG: 452818)
VerticalTabs: Pinned tabs

Site security icon

Falkon now display more proper security icon in the url bar based on the state if the SSL certificate exceptions. (BUG: 420902)

Various security icons

Removed FTP support

The FTP support in Chomium and QtWebEngine which is based on it was removed a while ago. So with this update Falkon will not advertise to the system that it support FTP protocol and it will instead try to open other program to handle it. (BUG: 494222)

Others

And more:

  • Fix printing to real CUPS printer. (BUG: 497051)
  • Preferences: Fix crash when un/loading of plugins (BUG: 492023)
  • Random fixes

Short changelog

  • Do not advertise ftp support to the system (BUG: 494222)
  • GreaseMonkey: Add support for context menu (BUG: 469855)
  • GreaseMonkey: Check content type of url *.user.js (BUG: 467459)
  • VerticalTabs: Fix tab switching with mouse wheel (BUG: 394066)
  • VerticalTabs: Arrange pinned tabs vertically (BUG: 452818)
  • Set security icon according to certificate error. (BUG: 420902)
  • Preferences: Fix crash when un/loading of plugins (BUG: 492023)
  • Fix printing to real CUPS printer (BUG: 497051)
  • Random fixes