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

Edit: They claim they will make that part open source too, eventually, and it is due to behavior of another browser: https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp-core/issues/62

Edit 2: They just open sourced the private repository 7 minutes ago, 2024-03-24T12:39Z

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago (29 children)

Besides Tor, I'm yet to see a Firefox fork that makes sense

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Even LibreWolf, which is just a Firefox with different configuration by default, I think should be just config files.

I really want to see browsers saving configurations and data in a simple file formats, like QuteBrowser do.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You cant remove pocket and telemetry without recompiling. That's why its not just a config file.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

There are admin overrides for those, I use them.

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