@barbudo2005 I just installed Floorp, and added key Firefox extensions which I will get to, but as regards your comment, for me , Vivaldi supplements Firefox portable, which I overall find to be is better.

Especially if one opens a lot tabs and to be able to obtain multiple tab rows, as with Vivaldi (hack).

Without the latter I would be not be using Vivaldi and would use Firefox ESR 52.9 for forums and research, etc. aside from commerce. But Vivaldi works better on some sites.

In that interest I run many installations of Firefox Portable (from a SSD partition), each for its own general purpose, and added Floorp to the mix.

All running concurrently, thank God for helps.

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I found that Firefox extensions work in Floorp, as does the Izheil Multi-row tabs and other functions installer though it protests against a non-standard profile. [Edit: I found that Floorp enables MTR by default!: paste about:preferences#design in the address bar]

Of course, there are a few developer preferences that require about:config to "fix," such as always opening search results (from address or search bar) in new tab and open new ones at the end of the tab bar.

The main extensions I like that I found to work in Floorp include:

Bible Previewer for Firefox : hover view the bible verses referenced in an article, S

uBlock Origin Effectively blocks most ads

Custom Scrollbars Hit the options gear icon

Close Tab Context Menu

simple-close-tab-button

tab-manager-v2 (save sessions)

Copy PlainText

FireTitle titles in tabs and title bars

Form History Control Save, View and Manage text form data

DownThemAll! [good for direct links, if not most media, which excludes most media, and I want to be legal]

Clippings: Saves text if you choose such and manages frequently-entered text for later pasting

Save Page WE Save Page WE provides a simple facility to save a web page (as currently displayed) as a single HTML file that can be opened in any browser.

Simple Translate When you select text, the translation button pops up and the chosen translation is displayed instantly.

Since I liked it better than most of the other Gecko browsers, I decided to take another look at LibreWolf.
It's been updated to version 124.0.1-1.
My previous post was for clearing History manually while the browser is open.
Today, I was able to clear the History on exit.
I selected Settings, then Privacy & Security.
In the History secton, there is a Settings button.
Selecting it will display the options for the items to be cleared when LibreWolf is closed.
Enabling the option for "Browsing & download history" is what I needed to do for clearing History on exit.

Thanks for the interesting post. I too have tried Arc and I also love it. It's blindingly fast and I love how one doesn't have to constantly cleanup tabs. My reservations about Arc have to do with backup. Since Arc doesn't currently save Spaces (except via Sync, which I don't trust), I'm quite nervous about relying on it. If they would add export/import of settings including Spaces, I'd feel a lot more comfortable relying on it.

I haven't had the bad experiences you've had with VivaldiMac (MacBook Pro 16 M1 Max). It's definitely not as zippy as Arc, but feels quite solid to me. Also, third party extensions work in Vivaldi and not all of them do in Arc (and the Arc address bar is too short so I can't make out the extension icons clearly).

So, I'm using both at the moment and I enjoy each of them for different reasons.

@DoctorG Yes, Firefox is becoming less and less important. No wonder, Mozilla is removing more and more useful functions from Firefox. That's why I switched from Firefox to Vivaldi back in 2018.

I still very much prefer using Firefox in Android, because it supports some plugins I like 🙂
The market dominance of Chrome is a bit scary 🙂

@AllanH Oh cool! Thanks!

I am honestly enjoying using copilot in Bing. The suggestions it brings forward when I need to use it for some productivity are pretty great.

Hopefully this expands for users outside of the EU.

@luetage I use the search engine from time to time. Surprisingly, it's actually the least politically biased of all the search engines - or at least out of the those that are based on Google or Microsoft's web indexes (which is most of them). Someone ran an experiment on a bunch of search engines about two years ago and concluded this. I've also since confirmed it anecdotally on certain political search terms, that are not even especially "way out there."

I use a script to force the use of HD if it is available because I found that Google was forcing YouTube to default to the lowest possible resolution (and this was with all five browsers). If HD is not available, the extension will choose the highest resolution that is available.

@Pesala Vivaldi masquerades as chrome though not firefox so how does that matter?

@gilmarnunes And, please, in international forum: use English language, translate from your language with a translator.

@neonix1, well, but change nothing in the risk to go online with an obsolete OS without security support. It's way better to install a current Linux distro, as OS or in dual boot with Windows XP and use the Windows local, going online with Linux, where you can use better and current browsers.
Since 2005, the most PC support 64 bits, even when the software and OS in this years are distributed in 32 bits. It is recommended to check it on your system.

@DoctorG Did you actually read what he wrote?

Google search has 90% market share. It's highly likely that most Vivaldi users shun Google Search but that's irrelevant given Vivaldi's tiny market share.

Because Google's web index is way bigger than everyone else's, e.g., 3x Microsoft's at the time of writing of that article, the other major browsers also use Google's blacklist. So if your site is blacklisted you will get that scary notice.

If you already know the site is safe you can ignore it, but most people looking for it are going to be deterred. So it is essentially a business destroyer, if Google decides you are a bad 'un.

Of course, if you're one of the 90% globally using Google Search it won't appear at all.

yeah there's a lot of anti competition going on at microsoft windows 10 and 11 i believe are that way they need to stop it and now before its too late

Old Opera (Presto) could do that, but few people used it that way. You could have small windows for each tab, and resize and arrange them independently - or tile or cascade then, or of course maximize them to take up the entire work area, as browsers do today. Mind you, screens back then were taller than they are now if less wide, and these days vertical space is more of a premium unless you have at least a 1080p monitor. (4K is 2160p, but that's more on gaming machines.)

@DoctorG, feste Fliegen?

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