Browser

A browserthat asks for little

Falkon, on a Void Linux desktop of your own.Qt WebEngine, a speed dial, and a session that survives a restart.

Falkon 26.08.02 cores · 4 GBOpens in a browser tab

hub://falkon

$ dxflow workflow create --identity falkon hub://falkon --start --link

01Pick a machinecores, memory and a rate per hour

02Create the workflowpulled from the hub, once

03Run it, then stopstopped when the work is done

The application

A modern engine,in a light shell

The rendering of Chromium, without the memory the rest of it wants.

Speed dial and bookmarks

The pages you open every time, on the new-tab page and in a real tree.

Blocking built in

AdBlock is part of the browser, with its own lists, not an extension to find.

Sessions it remembers

Windows and tabs come back after a restart, saved on the volume.

How you run it

Every defaultis one override away

The session reads its settings from the environment, so you set them on the start line.

VNC_PASSWORDWhat the tab asks for. It ships as dxflow, and everyone reading this knows that.

PANEL and TASKBARBoth hidden, so the browser has the whole screen. Show either one to get the desktop back.

AUDIOOff here. Turn it on and what plays in the page plays in your tab too.

start it your way

$ dxflow workflow start falkon --override env.app.VNC_PASSWORD=something-long

$ dxflow workflow start falkon --override env.app.AUDIO=on --link

The session

The browserfills the screen

Streamed to your browser, with Falkon already maximized.

6082Browserin the tab, at /vnc.html

5901VNCin a native client

/volumeStorageyour files, kept between runs

Open it from anywhereStart with --link and the session comes back on an HTTPS address.

Set a password firstVNC_PASSWORD defaults to dxflow, and everyone can read this page.

Good to know

Qt WebEngine,and not much else

Falkon is the modest one. The rendering engine is the same family; everything around it is smaller.

Light on the machine

Less around the engine means less memory per tab, which matters when the browser is sharing a machine with a job.

Sessions and speed dial

It restores what was open and keeps a dial of what you return to, which is most of what a working browser needs.

The profile belongs on the volume

Keep bookmarks, sessions and downloads under /volume and the next start picks up where this one stopped.

The image

Pulled once,then it stays

Falkon arrives as one image. This is what comes down the first time, and what the disk should have free for it.

607Mamd64compressed, the way the registry counts it

591Marm64compressed, the way the registry counts it

20GOn diskunpacked, with room to work beside it

ghcr.io/dxflow-ai/falkon:latestPublished from the hub, pulled on the first start and kept for the ones after it.

Either architectureamd64 and arm64 are both published, and the machine pulls the one it runs.

What it asks for

What it wants,and what it needs

The definition asks for 2 cores and 4 GB. The image comes up on less than that, and a start given --fit trims the ask to whatever the machine actually has.

2 cores · 4 GBAsks forwhat the definition writes down

2 cores · 2 GBRuns onthe least the image comes up on

Not neededGPUit works on the cores alone

The ask is not the floorThe definition writes down what suits the work. The image itself starts on less, which is what the second figure is.

--fit caps it to the hostA start given --fit trims each step to what the machine actually has, for that start alone. The definition is never rewritten.

Machines that fit it

Falkon asks for 2 cores and 4 GB. Cheapest first.

E2 Medium

$0.042/ hour2 cores · 4 GBStart this machine

T3 Medium

$0.052/ hour2 cores · 4 GBStart this machine

B2s

$0.052/ hour2 cores · 4 GBStart this machine

Run Falkon on your own machinePick a machine that meets it, and it opens about a minute after you ask.

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