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killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I switched from Firefox to Floorp and haven’t looked back. Less bloated, same features, haven’t found an extension that isn’t compatible yet.

Same with Fennec on Android.

This article is pretty poor overall. Why recommend Arc, a browser that requires a user account to even open a webpage, and which the author himself said will probably be disappearing in the near future as part of their own product strategy?

Lame clickbait aimed at nobody.

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fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What do you use on Mobile?

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- killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Fennec. I’ve also used Mull before now. Both are pretty decent drop in replacements for Firefox
  
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  - fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Thanks Fennec I use, I haven’t tried Mull yet. Sounds dumb but I’m constantly looking for Android FF forks so I can use them for other profiles. Really wish mobile FF would get proper profile support.
    
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jef@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Floorp is a nightmare from my experience, I’ve tried it about 2 years ago, it was pretty cool but insanely buggy, I’ve been trying it maybe once every 2 months ever since and it hasn’t gotten better IMO, if you customize almost anything in the ui, things will break eventually, and I always get frequent freezes and crashes.

At this point I just use Firefox with Betterfox user.JS and its been great, you get ff updates as fast as they come out since it’s not a frok, also has all bloat and telemetry disabled, whenever I try out another browser I just switch back to ff for one reason or another.

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- _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’ve been using it on Linux for months and have had zero issues. FIrefox, on the other hand, constantly crashes. When it even opens in the first place.
  
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- killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I haven’t had many bugs but I’m primarily using it on a MacBook, so maybe it’s more stable than on Linux? Though that in itself would also be a bother as I have a Linux desktop that I want to install on, so I’ll be looking out for these issues when I do.
  
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  - _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’m using it on Linux and have had zero issues.
    
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    killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Well fingers crossed for me then as I don’t really want to spend the time to migrate again!
    
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- bilb@lem.monster ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I wonder if floorp has improved, because people are talking it up lately. My experience a few months ago was like yours, it was very buggy.
  
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  - jef@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Last I’ve tried it was about a week ago, it was as I described. FYI I am on a mac, so Linux/windows might be less buggy, not sure.
    
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    bilb@lem.monster ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I was using the flatpak on Linux.
    
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klu9@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Have you tried Firedragon? Floorp-based but with some eye candy and privacy enhancements. (Linux only at the moment)

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- killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  No but I like Floorp and I like eye candy, so I certainly will be!
  
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clot27@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Exactly the same. Floorp Fennec ftw

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trueheresy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This is interesting as I’ve not even heard of Floorp and alternatives have been such a hot topic the last month between manifest v3 and firefoxes updated terms fiasco.

Can I ask, what for you had you opt for floorp vs the more commonly mentioned alternatives like Librewolf, Waterfox, etc.?

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- killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It sounded like the easiest migration from FF, and I tried it first out of the options I had lined up to consider (inc. LibreWolf). I expect LW is great too, but I’m time poor and until Floorp gives me a reason to switch, I’ll stick with it.
  
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- aqua_cat@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I at least switched to Floorp for more customization options and funny name, but back then Floorp also had vertical tabs and side-dock before any other Firefox fork (afaik).
  
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IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Why did you go with Floorp vs the other FF forks? Just curious.

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- killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It sounded on base value like the least effort when switching from Firefox. It basically came down to Floorp and LW. I tried the former first and didn’t see a need to continue looking.
  
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- clot27@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  For me, librewolf focuses too much on privacy sacrificing features, I personally dont like zen’s design. There’s others like waterfox but didnt tried them
  
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