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Floorp, a Firefox Fork with an awful name, has moved some components inside a private submodule. (github.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

Edit 2: They just open sourced the private repository 7 minutes ago, 2024-03-24T12:39Z

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

It may be. The person saying that has contributed artwork but is not the maintainer. It is a bad look though. It sounds like they want to build the next release in secret so the fork can’t release features first.