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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

As soon as I heard of the mere plan to do this, I ditched Chromium altogether and went back to Firefox. Ultimately, I landed on the fork Floorp.

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

Can you elaborate on why floorp is better than Firefox? Is it just more customization?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://www.fastcompany.com/91038756/why-floorp-has-become-browser-of-my-dreams

Pros: vertical tabs, web apps, side panel, workspaces, many customizations. to be clear tho, Firefox has already stated they will be incorporating most of these features by version 130 or sooner.

Cons: no mobile app, video playback with DRM may be an issue on some sites, uncertain future, essentially it's maintained by one dev so if they ever go the future is uncertain.

tl;dr, Floorp is kind of like Vivaldi with customizing and privacy in mind, but based on Firefox's gecko engine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I had the exact same journey as you: Chrome to Chromium to Firefox to Floorp.