Update: They just open-sourced it https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp-private-components
cross-posted from: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/[email protected]/t/170330
See also https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/floorp-going-closed-source/52783
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.
Suyu, a fork of the Yuzu emulator which was taken down by Nintendo, is an excellent example.
You mean the one that was just recently…taken down?
Yeah, didn’t last as long as I’d hoped it would.
Only the repo on GitLab was taken down, in response, they just created their own Forgejo instance. They also have their own website: https://suyu.dev/
Just give it a few more days before their Forejo and website are taken down. I honestly didn’t think they could be more aggressive than they already are, but recently they’ve proved me dead wrong.
It’s self hosted in $godknowswhere, so it’s unlikely
Only the gitlab project was taken down. They moved.
What else does it apart from rebranding firefox and getting ad revenue?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 :/)
Are there any benefits to using LibreWolf if I’m alrrady using Arkenfox?
Not really, I just find LibreWolf much easier to install. I don’t want to mess around with downloading and copying Firefox profiles every time.
Or Mullvad Browser. I really like that browser too.
oof, gotta switch again
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.
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.
Welp, the message you’ve cross-posted was since edited to include
Edit: They claim they will make that part open source too, eventually, and it is due to behavior of another browser: https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp-core/issues/62
It appears they just did, as of a few minutes ago while I was looking into it
Here is the now open private components repo under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license
And I forked it just to be sureCan somebody elaborate on this? How could somebody stealing their code be a problem?
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.
My dog loves floorp. He does it whenever he gets excited to meet someone new.
Ah for fucks sake, I really liked this browser.
Midori and Firedragon are both based off Floorp.
Removed by mod
How do I get the same vertical tabs that Floorp has on other FireFox forks?
Removed by mod
Floorp has been around for a couple of months, I’m using LibreWolf since 2021 so it’s a little more trustworthy.
I kinda like the name, actually.
If y’all are mad about this, look into Midori. It’s a fork of florp and I think it’s better, too.
From the website:
With Midori Browser you can browse the web with complete confidence and an advanced tracking blocker.
Then the next paragraph states:
Cryptotoken: To reward our users, we are organizing an initiative a Token to give users to use our products and services without tracking.
So it blocks tracking but adds more tracking, so users can buy some shitcoin to remove the tracking?
I’m glad that their forks of simple mobile tools didn’t gain traction, then
Welp, I’ll be damned then. Back to good ole Firefox then
Is it open source?
As far as I know, yes.
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Still going to use the heck out if it. It’s super useful in my workflow and firefox at heart. I want to be more productive, not poorductive on some weird purist idealism.
