Floorp.

lamrongol

I think important things are not written.
First, official site is: https://floorp.app/
(GitHub: https://github.com/floorp-Projects/floorp/ )

And, this browser's most important feature is Firefox-based and is not ruled by Chrome Web Store. So, for example, addon(extension) doesn't need to follow Manifest v3, which has following problems: https://github.com/violentmonkey/violentmonkey/issues/1934#issuecomment-2154174223

npro

The... desert here but at last there are some good news about Floorp 12 (Floorp rebasing on Firefox's "rapid release" i.e. major updates every four weeks, instead of the current ESR)

We will release Alpha build for Floorp 12 in this month.

ybjrepnfr

@npro yes, but tbh i care less nowadays than i used to. a few months ago i serendipitously discovered the wonderful project https://github.com/aminought/firefox-second-sidebar, which i ofc installed in my ffn to evaluate it. i fell in love with it, coz it's more flexible / powerful than the webpanel sidebars in all of vivaldi, zen & floorp. ever since, i've been back in ffn as my daily browser, enjoying the excellence of sidebery + 2nd-sidebar. i still have zen installed [but have largely lost interest in it coz i feel its Dev has now lost the plot, going off into all manner of tangents i find irrelevant (say, that sounds a familiar story, almost like some other browser i used to love before it might have also lost its way...)] & floorp also still installed [& will certainly be interested to see v12 soon], but having webpanels now in my ffn changed everything!

npro

@ybjrepnfr Nice find indeed, though it requires quite a bit of hacking . I tried zen, didn't like its looks.

(reminds me of opera and mac, too much "fashion"-orientated for my taste -Vivaldi's "new" look also follows that trend-). I want my native window bars and not everything designed around roundness.

Basically Floorp has got me covered with its pre-configured icons, privacy options, etc., and sideberry was broken in ffn so I ditched ffn. Only looking forward to Floorp 12 nowadays tbh .

aminought

@ybjrepnfr Thank you, I'm very glad to see such a good words about my project!

ybjrepnfr

@npro said in Floorp.:

Only looking forward to Floorp 12 nowadays tbh

Beta now available.
https://blog.ablaze.one/4683/2025-02-20/

ybjrepnfr

@ybjrepnfr fwiw, floorp 12 beta, at least every public release so far, is struggling very badly. numerous cool features & functions from 11 missing, & important things still hopelessly broken, eg, workspaces. given how slick 11 was, i've been stunned at how badly 12 is going so far. i never expected that the base jump from esr to release would cause such damage.

meanwhile, nightly with firefox-second-sidebar keeps on going gangbusters... not to mention its ongoing uBO full functionality, unlike some other browsers, cough cough.

wintercoast

@ybjrepnfr said in Floorp.:

floorp 12 beta, at least every public release so far, is struggling very badly. numerous cool features & functions from 11 missing

Sounds like when Opera went from Classic to their initial Chromium version!

npro

@ybjrepnfr true, but they said it will take at least 2 months to reach RC status, so I'm optimistic.

ybjrepnfr

@npro fwiw the beta update of 2 or 3 days ago fixed heaps of the problems i mentioned earlier... it's now a very very usable browser! today there was another update, but i couldn't notice anything obvious that had changed.

ongoing issues still needing to be fixed:

tab groups remain visible across all workspaces, instead of staying only in their correct WS
i cannot deduce how to unsplit tabs. there's no GUI tool for it that i can see, no context-menu item, & no keyboard-shortcut for it