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Konqueror: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Konqueror is KDE's web browser and general-purpose file manager in one application, part of KDE since 2000. As a browser it renders with Qt WebEngine, which is based on Chromium; earlier versions used KDE's own KHTML engine and later QtWebKit. As a file manager it offers split views, access to remote locations over FTP and SFTP through KIO, a full FTP client, and embedded viewers such as Okular, Gwenview and KTextEditor for previewing documents, images and text. It is a desktop application for Linux and other Unix-like systems.

Konqueror is open source under the GPL-2.0-or-later licence and is developed by the KDE community. KDE is represented legally by KDE e.V., a non-profit association based in Berlin, Germany, and the browser has no commercial owner. It runs locally and is not a hosted service. Web rendering relies on the Chromium-based Qt WebEngine.

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Sovereignty score

94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
Open source: low switching costs
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 9, 2026

Headquarters	DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
Category	Browser
Type	Product
Website	apps.kde.org ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Konqueror

The European alternatives to Konqueror come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Konqueror

Konqueror is headquartered in DE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Konqueror scores best on data residency.

Konqueror is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Konqueror together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Konqueror?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Konqueror include Ecosia Browser, Falkon and Iridium Browser. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Konqueror?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Konqueror include Falkon, Iridium Browser, LibreWolf, Midori, Mullvad Browser and Nyxt. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Konqueror GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Konqueror is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Konqueror an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 9, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

Report a vulnerability: kde.org/info/security/
Organisation behind the open-source project: KDE

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

Checked on October 9, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

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