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Not sure about the hardening but as a former Vivaldi user I hope this fork flourishes. I recall Mozilla saying they want to focus on Firefox's customisability and this cranks that to 100.
Nice to see appreciation for it in the comments too. With things like HowToGeek's article on how Firefox forks are the devil, I feel it can hurt Firefox's image.
why did you quit vivaldi? btw i didn't know about that article but i'm gonna check that out now, thanks!
I gave Pulse - a recent Firefox fork - a try and the minimalist UI (in comparison to base FF and Floorp) was really nice. Then I tried Simple Tab Groups to replace Vivaldi's Tab Workspaces and it was better than Workspaces for me.
And then someone on fedi linked Sidebery and that basically combines STG with Tree Style Tabs. Sidebery didn't play nicely with Pulse's native sidebar features so I'm on base Firefox with similar user.js tweaks as well as hidden tabs.
The article is pretty old now, especially since there's more Firefox forks than just Pale Moon and Waterfox, but it just boils down to "forks might not have features or security updates that Firefox will have". Wonder what the Librewolf and Floorp guys would think of that now.
True, true. Thanks!