Update: They just open-sourced it https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp-private-components
cross-posted from: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/foss@beehaw.org/t/170330
See also https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/floorp-going-closed-source/52783
If y’all are mad about this, look into Midori. It’s a fork of florp and I think it’s better, too.
From the website:
With Midori Browser you can browse the web with complete confidence and an advanced tracking blocker.
Then the next paragraph states:
Cryptotoken: To reward our users, we are organizing an initiative a Token to give users to use our products and services without tracking.
So it blocks tracking but adds more tracking, so users can buy some shitcoin to remove the tracking?
I’m glad that their forks of simple mobile tools didn’t gain traction, then
The creator of Floorp posted a reponse to this: https://blog.ablaze.one/4125/2024-03-11/
TLDR posted by the creator: creator:
To put it simply, the current Floorp, including forks, will end the moment I stop maintaining it, so to prevent that from happening, I have prohibited forks. The idea is to solve the user’s concern about code transparency by tightening the license when returning to open source, and to create a sustainable Floorp by giving them the choice of paying money or helping with the coding.
Unfortunately a lot of this seems in reponse to Midori, a seemingly hostile fork with a pretty suspcious website.
Unfortunately a lot of this seems in reponse to Midori, a seemingly hostile fork with a pretty suspcious website.
To some people all forks are hostile. This appears to be such a case. He just seems to be sour over people exercising the same freedoms he got from Mozilla upstream. Rules for thee but not for me. The free software community doesn’t need his obscure fork.
I disagree in this case. The majority of Firefox forks make it clear they’re a fork, giving credit to Mozilla. Midori seems to hide that they’re a fork while adding very little to the browser. Their website also takes donations while having a fake phone number and broken contact button. Hard not to see that as suspicious.
Edit: the dev was also completely ok with Firedragon switching to their codebase because they did so resepectfully.
I still disagree with what the dev did, but I get the struggle.
I grew up in the era where open-source was just starting out and creators were giving 🖕 to big tech and naming their products wacky names.
This reminds me of that era.
Suyu, a fork of the Yuzu emulator which was taken down by Nintendo, is an excellent example.
You mean the one that was just recently…taken down?
Yeah, didn’t last as long as I’d hoped it would.
Only the repo on GitLab was taken down, in response, they just created their own Forgejo instance. They also have their own website: https://suyu.dev/
Just give it a few more days before their Forejo and website are taken down. I honestly didn’t think they could be more aggressive than they already are, but recently they’ve proved me dead wrong.
It’s self hosted in $godknowswhere, so it’s unlikely
floorp makes me think of the old social web browser, flock which is giving me mega nostalgia.
What else does it apart from rebranding firefox and getting ad revenue?
I believe the main thing people liked about Floorp is tab grouping and vertical tab layout à la Vivaldi, and a more modern and slim design out of the box, while keeping a firefox core instead of being another chromium based browser.
Removed by mod
What did Thorium add? Where can I find out more.
Oh that. Haha. Harmless but weird nonetheless to be in the source.
They just open sourced the private repository 7 minutes ago, 2024-03-24T12:39Z
That’s great. I edited the post title.
Can you edit the post to say why it is outdated? I was confused seeing the title.
Good idea.
