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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] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is Waterfox still owned by the advertising company?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

No, (Captain Obvious,) and I never really got the fuss around that in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You don’t understand why an ad company owning a “privacy focused” browser is a problem?

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

I can check the commits.

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

Do you? Genuinely, not trying to snark. I see this point lots, but Im skeptical that people actually do.

As a dev, I read plenty of commits, and the idea of voluntarily prodding through commits on a FOSS project is just not happening. I'd rather just trust the dev, and the community to pick through the code in my place. The obvious issue being, what if everyone also does that.

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

In fact, sometimes! Sometimes I check GitHub's difference between tags and open commits with commit summaries too vague on the first page. Yeah, it's pretty much just a basic scan, but since it's open source I don't think they'll be brave enough to do things too nefarious and hidden, which like the bystander effect you've said, I feel like will come to light anyway. Hell, someone somehow managed to find furry porn in Thorium.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

The relevant, 2023-07-03:

I am happy to say that Waterfox is independent again.