Floorp Browser: Is It The Most Advanced Cross-Platform Firefox Derivative? Let's take a look at another interesting Firefox fork, Floorp.

itsfoss.co ^ | January 20, 2024 . | Sourav Rudra

[daniel1212]

Technology has certainly come on orders of magnitude over the years, I well remember in those long gone days trying to set up a home network with Windows ME and had a cell phone with an antenna LOL. Oh, and dial-up.

Yes, with Windows 95 and 98SE, and for $20 I bought a device that would enable me to answer the landline for about 30 secs without losing the Internet connection! Which was all I paid for Internet since AOL would always give me another 30 to 90 days when I called up to quit (which I would) until I actually found completely free ISP (freeisp.com) service. Only went high speed about 1999. Praise God.

[dayglored]

> Whose virtualization software should I start with? Have a couple things I’d like to do in that space.

I'll suggest VirtualBox. It's free, reasonably easy to use, and IMO fairly intuitive for the person who is new to virtualization.

There are non-free packages such as VMware Workstation/Fusion, but there's a caveat with VMware, which is that it was bought by Broadcom recently and the future of those personal-use products is not clear.

Those are the two options I'm familiar with; there are others depending on your platform (OS), such as Xen and Parallels.

[dayglored]

I should add: there are free versions of the paid VMware products (typically called "Player") which are feature-limited but quite useful nonetheless.

However, the caveat about Broadcom applies even more to those offerings.

[dayglored]

From the OP article:

...web browser that prides itself in being completely open-source ...

but from the Floorp website:

...The source code for Floorp is mostly public, ...

I'm not sure how to interpret that apparent disagreement. Either something is available or it is not, and like truth/falsehood, something that is partly false cannot be called true.

Opinion? Do you happen to know which parts of Floorp are not public (I could not find out with a quick scan)?

[Bob434]

bump

[dadfly]

bookmark.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[daniel1212]

From the OP article: ...web browser that prides itself in being completely open-source ... but from the Floorp website: ...The source code for Floorp is mostly public, ... I'm not sure how to interpret that apparent disagreement. Either something is available or it is not, and like truth/falsehood, something that is partly false cannot be called true. Opinion? Do you happen to know which parts of Floorp are not public (I could not find out with a quick scan)?

Sounds like a disconnect btwn the reviewer and the source.

Article also says:

If you are interested in the source code, you can head over to its GitHub repo.

Floorp itself says:

The source code for Floorp is mostly public, allowing anyone to view it and contribute to Floorp. Not only is the browser itself open to the public, but the build environment is also open source.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

I think one can run XP or even Windows 9x if careful (pray and press), avoid all gambling, porn, game sites and use a antimalware host file.....

Well, I am in an interesting situation, in that my ISP is HughesNet. I think they must run their system like a giant VPN, because I never see any of the "pinging" from Chinese (and .gov) sources that used to see before. (And if you try to geolocate my IP, it tells you it's in Kansas, 1000 miles from my actual.) I don't go anywhere near porn or music sites, don't even view videos. I do not do any banking online. I do not use Paypal, (which was the source of the last two credit card breaches I had, according to the bank. Those were in 2016, and I haven't had one since.) My email provider is ProtonMail. (I wish that family members would not use Gmail and Yahoo, though.) I do not use WiFi.

Because my Part B insurer won't compile their site to run on XP & FF-52, I was forced to buy a Win 10 machine to manage my online prescriptions. It scares me. I had to give up a bunch of personal info to Microsoft just to get the O/S to start up. I've caught Brave storing my credit card info without asking me. Win10 regularly demands that I back up to Microsoft's cloud. I had forgotten what a PITA the updates from Microsoft can be. Too often this Win10 machine literally will not shut itself down for up to half an hour, unless I pull the power cord and yank the battery.

Lastly, I still use some legacy software almost daily that simply doesn't work properly on Win 10. I'm old enough that I once had to learn UNIX for work, but at 79 I'm fed up with being forced to learn new operating systems. So AFAIC I'm keeping my XP machine front and center until they carry me out in a body bag. /rant

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

THANK YOU!!!!

Been using Brave, but it’s a bit buggy on android. And a bit of a pig, it seems.

My privacy settings are usually on strict, so many sites don’t work.

Why so many different FF instances? I’m not questioning your obviously guru knowledge, just ignorant.

[Pollard]

I mostly run Waterfox but not classic. For addons, I use uBlock Origin, YesSctipt, Tree Style Tabs and Dark Mode 0.4.5

Will check out Floorp

[Pollard]

https://floorp.app/en/download/

XP is a 32 bit OS

There’s a Windows 32 bit version and a Windows Portable version.

One of these might work

[Pollard]

Well this isn't promising. Seems unable to display it's own privacy policy page.

[daniel1212]

I do not do any banking online. I do not use Paypal,

I use a separate Vivaldi stand-alone browser for both,with no extensions and config. not to remember pws, but have used PP to make many purchases on all my browsers in recent years (usually low-cast items, like bike parts) with no thefts so far, thanks be to God in Christ. Pray and press.

I was forced to buy a Win 10 machine to manage my online prescriptions. It scares me. I had to give up a bunch of personal info to Microsoft just to get the O/S to start up. I've caught Brave storing my credit card info without asking me. Win10 regularly demands that I back up to Microsoft's cloud. I had forgotten what a PITA the updates from Microsoft can be. Too often this Win10 machine literally will not shut itself down for up to half an hour, unless I pull the power cord and yank the battery.

I hear you, but did you search how to bypass this? I myself installed W/11 using a MS account, but you should be able to do so without one, as well as W/10.

You can Turn off, disable, or uninstall OneDrive

You should also install MS sanctioned Autoruns for Windows (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns) which you unpack, and run (best to r. clk. run as Admin) and hit Everything and see what all is loading, which you can deselect.

Also helpful is Process Explorer https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

Of course, Windows update will often revert changes to autorun apps but if you want,

How to prevent Windows 10 updates

I thank God for such tools. May we use them for God and what is good in His sight.

[mo]

and I thought Firefox was supposed to be doing all this for us 10 years ago!

[mo]

Seamonkey Suite is the Netscape derivative-

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/

[zeugma]

How does it compare to Brave?

[daniel1212]

Cannot say now. I rarely use browsers that do not enable multiple tab rows.I used Brave once but did not see what I wanted, but thank God for choices!

[daniel1212]

You might find the Simply Translate ext. acceptable: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-translate/

[SuperLuminal]

"...Edge is the most intrusive one I have ever seen and will never use that pig, can’t uninstall it either,..."

There is a way to uninstall Edge...

Watched a YouTube video and did it, about that 2 days ago...
Just type: "remove edge from windows 10 permanently" in the YouTube search bar...
There are several videos...

It works...