Update: They just open-sourced it https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp-private-components
cross-posted from: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/foss@beehaw.org/t/170330
See also https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/floorp-going-closed-source/52783
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.
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.
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 sure
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
What does it even do better? I remember using it right after they redid it and it was just a 1/1 copy of Floorp
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.
