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https://floorp.app gotta be a very interesting one.
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Note: I added uBlock and the awful Google Translate myself.
Speaking of Japan, thatās where Iām at right now. Nice coincidence haha
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Checked out mercury an floorp. I canāt really tell with mercury being faster with how I browse, but Iām liking floop its customization is really nice for a ultrawide monitor. Bottom address bar vertical auto hidden tabs rounded corners on web pages is a breath for fresh air.
-setup though im still testing if i like side tabs .
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I exclusively use Tor Browser Bundle. 
Iāve got a new favourite browser 
When dr460nf1r3 suggested floorp I got curious and decided to give it a try and I havenāt looked back.
FireDragon is great, but I found one problem which really annoyed me - enhanced tracking protection is too agressive. When I looked at a page which had an embedded twitter post I found that the only way to display the post was to go into settings and exempt the site from enhanced tracking protection. I ended up with numerous sites where I had to disable the feature, thus it made it pretty useless.
Floorp offers the standard mode for enhanced tracking protectionā¦
ā¦and this doesnāt break Twitter embeds. I use uBlock Origin along with uMatrix for browser security so I have no problems with the reduced tracking protection of the browser.
The browser itself is very flexible and offers many different interface options. Here are some screenshotsā¦
Firefox Proton UI
Firefox Photonć»Lepton UI
Floorp Fluerial UI
GNOME Theme
The tab bar can be displayed under the toolbarā¦
ā¦you can have a multi-tow tab barā¦
ā¦ and you can even put the tab bar at the bottom of the browser:
Some of the browser options that are easily applied via settings:
The browser supports JPEG XL images JPEG XL Test Page
Tabs can be set to go to sleep after xx min to reduce RAM usage.
Overall, Floorp has a few minor quirks (I couldnāt get the vertical tab bar to work), but Iām sure this will be fixed in a future version.
Itās an excellent browser.
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i like it too, but i love Firedragonās security. (eff twatter)
i wonder if dr460nf1r3 could use this as the base package for a future Firedragon?
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It uses Firefox ESR as base, the question is whether patches would still apply at it seems heavily modded. In fact, Iām currently daily driving this one too.
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Regular Updates
Floorp is based on Firefox ESR. Floorp will be updated every 4 weeks, and security updates will be provided before Firefox release.
No User Tracking
We donāt get personal information from users. We donāt track users. We donāt sell user data. We donāt have any relationship with any advertising company.
Completely Open Source
The source code for Floorp is fully public, allowing anyone to view the source code and build Floorp. It is not only the browser itself that is open to the public. The build environment is also open source.
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Funny you mention this, I am about to start trying building a Firedragon based on Floorp.
Carl Theodor von Unlanski once wrote āGreat Minds Think Alikeā. loll
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iām a bit too eccentric and opinionated to be a āgreatā mind, but i thank you for the inference =-)
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As a footnote to my above overview of Floorp with screenshots Iāve got 3 more because they show what I think is the best aspect.
I mentioned that I couldnāt get the vertical tab bar to work, well, it just so happens itās now working, and once you get used to it itās great because youāve got a larger area for the web page to be displayed.
In the design section of settings you set the followingā¦
ā¦the āCollapse Vertical Tab Barā is a required setting.
when this is done the browser interface looks like thisā¦
ā¦and when you want to change tabs you simply move your mouse pointer over the vertical tab bar, out it popsā¦
ā¦and you select the required tab.
I love it.
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Even though Iāve been using FireDragon for a long while, I recently tried Waterfox again after many many years. Last time I used it was because it actually was a 64-bit browser, and that was the new and exciting thing at that time! 
Pretty neat that the new version of Waterfox has DNS over Oblivious HTTP already set up out of the box. (DNS over Oblivious HTTP uses DNS over HTTPS to encrypt DNS queries, but it also redirects requests through proxy servers, so that the DNS provider canāt link domain queries to the specific user.) More info here: Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH in 1.1.1.1
Also, Iāve noticed Waterfox somehow has the menu integration working again for KDE. Not sure how they got this to work, but it was also a welcomed addition. Still has slight bugs with that menu though; if you change your bookmarks for instance.
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I guess my biggest issue is finding a good browser that will sync and run on all y devices, I use the following devices regularly and need one web browser that runs well on all of them:
Garuda Linux on Desktop PC
Windows 11 on Work Laptop
iPad Air 5
iPhone 15 Pro
Floorp is a fork of Firefox, so you could use Floorp on Garuda and sync it with Firefox on the other O/Sās.
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Floorp. Floorp. Floorp, floorp, floorp.
I just love saying that word. Do it too much out in public, though, and men in white coats may come for you. 
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How do you actually pronounce it?
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