Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

Post by xcdzvyn » Mon, Oct 02, 2023, 12:20 PM UTC

webmobdev wrote: post #66

bluish29 wrote: post #20

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.…

Note that out of these, the PaleMoon browser ( https://www.palemoon.org ) is the only real "hard" fork of Firefox. The others are all "soft" forks of Mozilla Firefox in that they all just customise some existing settings as defaults or customise the UI or integrate their own extensions of Firefox and rebrand it. The PaleMoon team however forked even Mozilla Gecko ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software) ), th…

Post by thefounder » Mon, Oct 02, 2023, 12:25 PM UTC

deaddodo wrote: post #8

thefounder wrote: post #4

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…

Post by OmarAssadi » Mon, Oct 02, 2023, 12:35 PM UTC

Ylpertnodi wrote: post #76

OmarAssadi wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's sort of strange to me how many Americans seem to share the same sentiment when my experience has often been the total opposite. China has some of the best factories, supply chains, and collaboration in the world. And while yes, of course, loads of intentionally cheap, low-quality goods are churned out regularly, many Chinese companies also make really solid products, often even the best products until you reach…

I think, two pertinent questions I'd like to ask (that would somewhat 'change' my reaction to your post: Are you American? Do you live in America?

Post by cmcaleer » Mon, Oct 02, 2023, 12:46 PM UTC

webmobdev wrote: post #66

bluish29 wrote: post #20

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.…

Note that out of these, the PaleMoon browser ( https://www.palemoon.org ) is the only real "hard" fork of Firefox. The others are all "soft" forks of Mozilla Firefox in that they all just customise some existing settings as defaults or customise the UI or integrate their own extensions of Firefox and rebrand it. The PaleMoon team however forked even Mozilla Gecko ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software) ), th…

Post by MrAlex94 » Mon, Oct 02, 2023, 1:05 PM UTC

strobe wrote: post #31

very nice that it has option to move tabs to bottom and hide address bar automatically - what other forks has support for that? (bottom tabs - seems previously it was possible to do that for vanilla Firefox via userChrome.css but that becoming harder to do which each release)