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Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

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Re: Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

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What's the point of stating that "it's made in Japan"? I just don't get it. Does it have improved IME or CJK support? It's not like Japan is famous for its quality software to be honest.

It's supposed to prepare your for the wonderful engrish documentation, and I quote: :)

> If you download Floorp you agree to the Pricacy Policy.

Re: Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

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post #2

What's the point of stating that "it's made in Japan"? I just don't get it. Does it have improved IME or CJK support? It's not like Japan is famous for its quality software to be honest.

Same reason as why people append "in Rust" to titles. Marketing.

Re: Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

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post #11
post #2

What's the point of stating that "it's made in Japan"? I just don't get it. Does it have improved IME or CJK support? It's not like Japan is famous for its quality software to be honest.

It's supposed to prepare your for the wonderful engrish documentation, and I quote: :) > If you download Floorp you agree to the Pricacy Policy .

That’s just a typo, obviously.

Re: Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

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post #2

What's the point of stating that "it's made in Japan"? I just don't get it. Does it have improved IME or CJK support? It's not like Japan is famous for its quality software to be honest.

For me at least it helps to know that it's not somehow secretly connected to some American intelligency agency

Re: Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

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post #2

What's the point of stating that "it's made in Japan"? I just don't get it. Does it have improved IME or CJK support? It's not like Japan is famous for its quality software to be honest.

Apple does this on every single one of its products, but not even from the nation its designed in, but the state!

I think they’re asking why it’s so prominent (more in the title of this submission than the website itself) as if it’s the main feature of the browser

Re: Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

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post #14
post #2

What's the point of stating that "it's made in Japan"? I just don't get it. Does it have improved IME or CJK support? It's not like Japan is famous for its quality software to be honest.

For me at least it helps to know that it's not somehow secretly connected to some American intelligency agency

Japan is not "connected to some American intelligency agency"??

Re: Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

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post #2

What's the point of stating that "it's made in Japan"? I just don't get it. Does it have improved IME or CJK support? It's not like Japan is famous for its quality software to be honest.

People buying and flexing with stuff that have "Designed in California" engraved on them and being offended with an Open Source software that just want to say is it developed in Japan.

Stop over thinking and just appreciate people work.

And meanwhile, Japan has been the biggest video games actor in the industry for the latest 50 years, so I guess there are some engineers over there.

Re: Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe for someone who prefers to buy made in Japan over made in China. A made in Europe sticker would definitely appeal to me more than a made in China. At least on products that are not mass produced from established brands.

I couldn't care less where my item is produced. It just so happens that a large variety of high-end products are produced at a higher level of quality (and cost, generally) in the West (including S Korea and Japan); but if someone introduced me to a Nigerian, Mexican, Thai, etc product that surpassed my current choice, I would switch in an instant. I don't understand caring at all about the source, unless there is so…

Privacy laws are different depending on the country of the publisher of the software.

Generally European countries provide the best protections and the fact it is published in Japan may imply that the US laws don’t apply there (and be a + or not)

Re: Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

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For reference, this is not just the only player in town (for Firefox forks). There is the following:

- librewolf (Desktop) [1]

- Mull (Android) [2]

- Iceraven (Android) [3]

- Mercury (Desktop) [4]

- Pulse Browser (Desktop) [5]

- Waterfox (Desktop) [6]

- Floorp (Desktop) [7] --> This submission

- Pale Moon (Desktop) [8]

- Mullvad Browser (Desktop) [9]

- Tor browser (Desktop - Android) [10]

This list is not inclusive. It probably contains the famous forks.

[1] https://librewolf.net

[2] https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix

[3] https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

[4] https://github.com/Alex313031/Mercury

[5] https://pulsebrowser.app

[6] https://www.waterfox.net

[7] https://floorp.app/en

[8] https://www.palemoon.org

[9] https://mullvad.net/en/browser

[10] https://www.torproject.org/download/

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