Floorp.

npro

@stilgarwolf

jjb2022

I am using Floorp but the auto-collapse (auto-hide) feature is driving me nuts. Is there a way to turn that off?

ybjrepnfr

@jjb2022 said in Floorp.:

the auto-collapse (auto-hide) feature

of what?

if you mean either the vertical tabbar or the horizontal bookmarks bar, then yes; it's all in the settings... ofc.

jjb2022

@ybjrepnfr Where? I searched and couldn't find.

ybjrepnfr

@jjb2022 i cannot help you at all if you continue to not explain what you need; i asked you a question...

@ybjrepnfr said in Floorp.:

of what?

jjb2022

The vertical tab bar automatically hides and I have to hover over it each time to see my tabs. Is there a way to turn that auto-hide off? Midori (based on Floorp) doesn't do this but Floorp does.

ybjrepnfr

@jjb2022

yes

one finds amazing things, when one explores the settings... in vivaldi & in floorp.

undachen

@ybjrepnfr Compared to Floorp, I still prefer Vivaldi Web Browser, especially its sidebar feature.

Catweazle

@undachen, same as all of us, but a lot of us, apart of Vivaldi also use one or more other browsers for several reasons, eg to test a web with different engines (Gecko, Qt5, WebView,...) in case of an issue, to see if it is a problem of Chromium or general for all browsers.

undachen

@Catweazle Thanks for the heads up.

Saved2Serve

@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.

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!