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Thoughts on new Japanese Firefox fork? (floorp.app)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There's this new browser built on Firefox that seems to be picking up steam on GitHub lately.

It looks like it's trying to be a more feature-rich, "batteries included", version of Firefox with hardening out of the box.

Has anyone used it? What do you think about it?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Floorp is still Firefox at its core as it's still using Firefox's UI and building on top of it, while Chromium can be embedded into a GUI (see Vivaldi and projects like CEF and Electron). That doesn't discredit it, in fact some of Floorp's changes are pretty good for customisabiity and user experience. That being said, I was told that the engine powering Firefox was able to be embedded but it had many issues to the point where integrating Chromium was easier.

On a similar note, I know Pulse Browser is part of an overarching project to make forking of Firefox an easier job, and I know they and the Floorp people are friendly.