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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] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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

True, true. Thanks!