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[OUTDATED POST] Floorp, a Firefox Fork with an awful name, has moved some components inside a private submodule.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 Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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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/foss@beehaw.org/t/170330

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

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[-] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 39 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] SuperSpecialNickname@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] gramgan@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] SuperSpecialNickname@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] gramgan@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 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 :/)