Update: They just open-sourced it https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp-private-components
cross-posted from: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/foss@beehaw.org/t/170330
See also https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/floorp-going-closed-source/52783
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Can you edit the post to say why it is outdated?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.
Ah for fucks sake, I really liked this browser.
Floorp also seems to be dropping support for workspaces in the near future…
https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp/issues/618#issuecomment-1842971843
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”
Ok sure, but most people associate proprietary with closed-source. What’s wrong with just saying source-available (instead of open-source)? Calling this proprietary just leads to confusion.
Because it’s not really about the “availability” of source code, but more about what you can actually do with the source code. If you don’t have the four freedoms it’s not free software.
Well free software isn’t the same thing as open-source software
Because it gives the wrong impression that it is not proprietary, just like how you are making this exact mistake.
floorp makes me think of the old social web browser, flock which is giving me mega nostalgia.
If y’all are mad about this, look into Midori. It’s a fork of florp and I think it’s better, too.
From the website:
With Midori Browser you can browse the web with complete confidence and an advanced tracking blocker.
Then the next paragraph states:
Cryptotoken: To reward our users, we are organizing an initiative a Token to give users to use our products and services without tracking.
So it blocks tracking but adds more tracking, so users can buy some shitcoin to remove the tracking?
I’m glad that their forks of simple mobile tools didn’t gain traction, then
Well that was an emotional roller coaster.
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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, Vivaldi’s ability to make itself surprisingly minimal (in a clean/non-“hacky” way) is the only thing keeping me from Firefox or Librewolf right now.
If you want you can try Floorp if you’d like to use Firefox based browser. It is really customizable, although it is missing a lot of things that Vivaldi has, like split screen and tab grouping. But it has an enhanced support for tree style tabs which is a big plus in my opinion.
Yeah I’ve poked at Floorp but it’s UI mods feel kinda janky at this stage. I really like being able to turn everything off (no tab bar, address bar only when activated), and the only other browser that can do that is Orion (or maybe qutebrowser? No extensions though :/)
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.
I believe the main thing people liked about Floorp is tab grouping and vertical tab layout à 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.
Still going to use the heck out if it. It’s super useful in my workflow and firefox at heart. I want to be more productive, not poorductive on some weird purist idealism.
Then you missed the point of why people do this in the first place, it’s not about idealism
