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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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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] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Damn, guess I go back to regular Firefox

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Try Mercery for a boost in performance of about 8-20% dependent on machine: https://thorium.rocks/mercury

Or for better security/privacy try LibreWolf: https://librewolf.net

Normal Firefox has telemetry and poor default settings but is still feature rich if you take the time to config.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

My small concern with Librewolf is getting security updates quickly. Cool project though. As I understand, the team has been better about quickly patching security vulnerabilities in recently months too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

[2024-03-23T09:29:01-0400] [ALPM] removed floorp-bin-debug (11.10.5-1)

[2024-03-23T09:29:01-0400] [ALPM] removed floorp-bin (11.11.1-1)