Floorp (Firefox Fork)

[Bings]

https://floorp.app

I learnt about this fork of firefox the other day. Really impressed it with it, it has a lot of nice customisation, works with the plugins I was using with regular Firefox and has a feature of "workspaces" which is nice for compartmentalising tasks rather than having a massive load of cluttered tabs. Not that I'd be that disorganised Can do split screen with two web pages and there's a side bar to embed pages. One extra feature, which I thought might interest GregM is..



I seem to remember a years long battle about this

It has a ppa or can be downloaded as a tar from their github the same way as firefox.

[Joel64]

I logged in to ask about Floorp, as I've just recently heard about it. I also read some things about some sort of "war" between it and Midori.

Currently there are 5 browsers on my computer, and one of them is Midori.

The last thing I want is to have to find a new browser because one of them closed down or was shut down because of competitive warfare.

Another concern is the Firefox fork aspect of these browsers. I think one of them uses the ESR version? If so, that's not a plus for me.

So, does anyone know what the better 'investment' is? Floorp or Midori?

[Schwarzer Kater]

Floorp is also officially available as a Flatpak from its developers (flatpak install flathub one.ablaze.floorp) - of course one has to enable Flatpak first in *Ubuntu…

OT:
Joel64: If you are interested in web browsers, this site about (default) privacy settings could also be of interest for you: https://privacytests.org/
Regarding default settings (and things one cannot change) I would say the worst web browsers for privacy are Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera and Vivaldi - no big surprises here…

[Bings]

I logged in to ask about Floorp, as I've just recently heard about it. I also read some things about some sort of "war" between it and Midori.

Currently there are 5 browsers on my computer, and one of them is Midori.

The last thing I want is to have to find a new browser because one of them closed down or was shut down because of competitive warfare.

Another concern is the Firefox fork aspect of these browsers. I think one of them uses the ESR version? If so, that's not a plus for me.

So, does anyone know what the better 'investment' is? Floorp or Midori?

I'd not heard anything about a "war" so I looked it up and it turns out some people have forked floorp and renamed it for a new version of Midori. I don't see why this should cause a war, would be odd if people were upset about a fork of a fork. Floorp (and thus Midori too I guess) is based on ESR.