Has anyone used Floorp yet?

[branfont]

Has anyone used it yet? It was posted in the Software news section of the site. The article is here:

https://www.neowin.net/software/floorp-japans-privacy-centric-firefox-browser/

[spaceelf]

Yes.

[Jaybonaut]

Yes I have, the lightning version.  Definitely noticeably faster than FF but I have to admit I have not loaded it up with any extensions or bookmarks yet.

[WITHOUT-ME]

nope

[spaceelf]

I'll probably set it to default unless it annoys me at some point, but I don't know if there's any point to using it over anything else.

[cork1958]

Hmm, missed this when it was originally posted in that news section. Trying it now. About time a different browser not based on Chrome came along.

[+Good Bot, Bad Bot Subscriber¹]

On 06/11/2023 at 09:25, cork1958 said:

Hmm, missed this when it was originally posted in that news section. Trying it now. About time a different browser not based on Chrome came along.

It's based on Firefox ESR and browsers based on Firefox are not new --> https://www.google.com/search?q=Firefox+based+browsers&client=firefox

[cork1958]

On 06/11/2023 at 10:09, Good Bot, Bad Bot said:

It's based on Firefox ESR and browsers based on Firefox are not new --> https://www.google.com/search?q=Firefox+based+browsers&client=firefox

Yes, I know there are some other browsers based on Firefox, but those are all older one's that I've tried before. I was more or less saying this is a newer one that I hadn't heard of before.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

tried out the browser for a bit but there is one deal breaker for me right now keeping me from using it full time on my home PC. It doesn't support the PWA extension properly yet. Wish Mozilla hadn't decided to drop native PWA support  

[branfont]

On 06/11/2023 at 10:09, Good Bot, Bad Bot said:

It's based on Firefox ESR and browsers based on Firefox are not new --> https://www.google.com/search?q=Firefox+based+browsers&client=firefox

There's a few on that list that I know of & tried, but a bunch I've never heard of.

[spaceelf]

Like most Firefox based browsers it's good most of the time...

I already got rid of it.

[+Spark99 Subscriber²]

I use Edge/Chrome for most browsing and the Mullvad Browser through a VPN for "sketchy" stuffs!

[OutlawHusbando]

On 06/11/2023 at 22:44, Brandon H said:

tried out the browser for a bit but there is one deal breaker for me right now keeping me from using it full time on my home PC. It doesn't support the PWA extension properly yet. Wish Mozilla hadn't decided to drop native PWA support  

It does support native PWA that's you don't need PWA addon, and you can install PWA addon too just like Firefox: https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp/discussions/411#discussioncomment-7800301

 

 

 

[Brandon H Supervisor]

On 10/12/2023 at 17:53, OutlawHusbando said:

It does support native PWA that's you don't need PWA addon, and you can install PWA addon too just like Firefox: https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp/discussions/411#discussioncomment-7800301

oh recent news. that's good to hear they're adding native support at that. I'll have to give it another try once the version releases.

[blade1269]

Nope