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[OUTDATED POST] Floorp, a Firefox Fork with an awful name, has moved some components inside a private submodule. (github.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Update: They just open-sourced it https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp-private-components

cross-posted from: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/[email protected]/t/170330

See also https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/floorp-going-closed-source/52783

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What else does it apart from rebranding firefox and getting ad revenue?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I believe the main thing people liked about Floorp is tab grouping and vertical tab layout à la Vivaldi, and a more modern and slim design out of the box, while keeping a firefox core instead of being another chromium based browser.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

This. I use floorp for work and Firefox for personal stuff.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 7 months ago (4 children)

It has a few privacy features, some themes, some other stuff. Nothing significant. It kinda became popular lately, and some people started using it. But now it's proprietary, so I wouldn't use it anymore. LibreWolf is much better and open source.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It also has double sidebars so I can put tabs in one of them instead of the top of the screen and hide the titlebar without having to modify userchrome.css. That's one thing I missed from Vivaldi when I moved to Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, Vivaldi’s ability to make itself surprisingly minimal (in a clean/non-“hacky” way) is the only thing keeping me from Firefox or Librewolf right now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you want you can try Floorp if you'd like to use Firefox based browser. It is really customizable, although it is missing a lot of things that Vivaldi has, like split screen and tab grouping. But it has an enhanced support for tree style tabs which is a big plus in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah I’ve poked at Floorp but it’s UI mods feel kinda janky at this stage. I really like being able to turn everything off (no tab bar, address bar only when activated), and the only other browser that can do that is Orion (or maybe qutebrowser? No extensions though :/)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Or Mullvad Browser. I really like that browser too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

oof, gotta switch again

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are there any benefits to using LibreWolf if I'm alrrady using Arkenfox?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

Not really, I just find LibreWolf much easier to install. I don't want to mess around with downloading and copying Firefox profiles every time.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

https://floorp.app/en/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

nothing then? Because I don't see anything different there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Like said below, it's nothing too significant. It boasts about having two sidebars on each side and "Flexible Toolbar & Tab Bar", which according to the screenshots is TreeStyleTab + another toolbar on the right. In my opinion, that is something different. And that's what the website says.