• I grew up in the era where open-source was just starting out and creators were giving 🖕 to big tech and naming their products wacky names.

    This reminds me of that era.

    • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼OP
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      589 months ago

      It has a few privacy features, some themes, some other stuff. Nothing significant. It kinda became popular lately, and some people started using it. But now it’s proprietary, so I wouldn’t use it anymore. LibreWolf is much better and open source.

      • @SuperSpecialNickname@lemmy.ml
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        109 months ago

        It also has double sidebars so I can put tabs in one of them instead of the top of the screen and hide the titlebar without having to modify userchrome.css. That’s one thing I missed from Vivaldi when I moved to Firefox.

        • @gramgan@lemmy.ml
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          29 months ago

          Yeah, Vivaldi’s ability to make itself surprisingly minimal (in a clean/non-“hacky” way) is the only thing keeping me from Firefox or Librewolf right now.

          • @SuperSpecialNickname@lemmy.ml
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            29 months ago

            If you want you can try Floorp if you’d like to use Firefox based browser. It is really customizable, although it is missing a lot of things that Vivaldi has, like split screen and tab grouping. But it has an enhanced support for tree style tabs which is a big plus in my opinion.

            • @gramgan@lemmy.ml
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              Yeah I’ve poked at Floorp but it’s UI mods feel kinda janky at this stage. I really like being able to turn everything off (no tab bar, address bar only when activated), and the only other browser that can do that is Orion (or maybe qutebrowser? No extensions though :/)

    • Treeniks
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      I believe the main thing people liked about Floorp is tab grouping and vertical tab layout à la Vivaldi, and a more modern and slim design out of the box, while keeping a firefox core instead of being another chromium based browser.

        • Aatube
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          Like said below, it’s nothing too significant. It boasts about having two sidebars on each side and “Flexible Toolbar & Tab Bar”, which according to the screenshots is TreeStyleTab + another toolbar on the right. In my opinion, that is something different. And that’s what the website says.

      • @fl42v@lemmy.ml
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        29 months ago

        Not sure about this particular case as the author didn’t elaborate, but sometimes suckers sell binaries. Also, they’ve mentioned assets that may be non-commercial or require naming the original author which some forks may choose to ignore.

        Anyways, I personally don’t use floorp, so you better ask their devs or community.

  • DrSleepless
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    229 months ago

    My dog loves floorp. He does it whenever he gets excited to meet someone new.

  • @priapus@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    The creator of Floorp posted a reponse to this: https://blog.ablaze.one/4125/2024-03-11/

    TLDR posted by the creator: creator:

    To put it simply, the current Floorp, including forks, will end the moment I stop maintaining it, so to prevent that from happening, I have prohibited forks. The idea is to solve the user’s concern about code transparency by tightening the license when returning to open source, and to create a sustainable Floorp by giving them the choice of paying money or helping with the coding.

    Unfortunately a lot of this seems in reponse to Midori, a seemingly hostile fork with a pretty suspcious website.

    • Captain Beyond
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      339 months ago

      Unfortunately a lot of this seems in reponse to Midori, a seemingly hostile fork with a pretty suspcious website.

      To some people all forks are hostile. This appears to be such a case. He just seems to be sour over people exercising the same freedoms he got from Mozilla upstream. Rules for thee but not for me. The free software community doesn’t need his obscure fork.

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        I disagree in this case. The majority of Firefox forks make it clear they’re a fork, giving credit to Mozilla. Midori seems to hide that they’re a fork while adding very little to the browser. Their website also takes donations while having a fake phone number and broken contact button. Hard not to see that as suspicious.

        Edit: the dev was also completely ok with Firedragon switching to their codebase because they did so resepectfully.

        I still disagree with what the dev did, but I get the struggle.

        • Captain Beyond
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          59 months ago

          I agree that the Midori website is suspicious however their repo properly credits Firefox and Floorp in the very first sentence of the readme (however they don’t actually link to this repo for some reason). In any case, my intent isn’t to defend Midori (which I don’t use or have any interest in) but rather to defend the four freedoms none of which are conditional on how much a fork adds or contributes back. In other words, it’s perfectly ok to just fork something and change the name.

          I still maintain it’s ironic that a fork developer is complaining about forks of his fork. This statement is baffling but I suppose it comes from a proprietary mindset where copying is theft:

          If these are forked, my hundreds of hours will have been wasted.

          By this logic the decades of development time on Firefox is wasted because of this guy’s fork.

  • Aatube
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    159 months ago

    They just open sourced the private repository 7 minutes ago, 2024-03-24T12:39Z

  • katy ✨
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    79 months ago

    floorp makes me think of the old social web browser, flock which is giving me mega nostalgia.

  • Captain Beyond
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    69 months ago

    The “open sourced” private components repo is under a fauxpen source (non-commercial) license. Floorp is still proprietary.