I grew up in the era where open-source was just starting out and creators were giving π to big tech and naming their products wacky names.
This reminds me of that era.
this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2024
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Suyu, a fork of the Yuzu emulator which was taken down by Nintendo, is an excellent example.
Nintendo are fucking clowns and so are JP IP laws. Fuck 'em both.
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, Vivaldiβs ability to make itself surprisingly minimal (in a clean/non-βhackyβ way) is the only thing keeping me from Firefox or Librewolf right now.
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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.
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I believe the main thing people liked about Floorp is tab grouping and vertical tab layout Γ 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.
This. I use floorp for work and Firefox for personal stuff.
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My dog loves floorp. He does it whenever he gets excited to meet someone new.
Ah for fucks sake, I really liked this browser.
same, any alternative?
LibreWolf or just regular Firefox? Which unique Floorp features do you miss in Firefox?
Good sidebars and PWA's, two things Firefox will probably never add sadly.
i mostly like the layout, everything being collapsed unless you hover over it, but there prob some extension for it already
Waterfox has auto hide for different stuff and the next update brings a sidebar for vertical tabs similar to floorp (you can already enable it in about:config)
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Can 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.
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
They just open sourced the private repository 7 minutes ago, 2024-03-24T12:39Z
That's great. I edited the post title.
Can you edit the post to say why it is outdated? I was confused seeing the title.
Good idea.
just installed few week ago and now this.
Same here. this is upsetting :/ Back to firefox I guess
I will not dog anyone on using Floorp or all these forks, but... just take 10 minutes and harden Firefox yourself? Transparent process, and you learn a few things by doing the utmost minimum things. What if Librewolf tomorrow goes closed or adds weird stuff like that Chrome fork Thorium? Firefox will not.
What did Thorium add? Where can I find out more.
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The "open sourced" private components repo is under a fauxpen source (non-commercial) license. Floorp is still proprietary.
Not proprietary, but source-available.
source-available.
Ergo, proprietary.
edit: my prior comment on the difference between fauxpen source and true free software licenses. It's not just theoretical or "purist"
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I kinda like the name, actually.
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