FireDragon 12 - Beta

dr460nf1r3 · June 24, 2025, 6:25pm

As Floorp 12 already exists, FireDragon is rebasing onto this new build system (and Firefox 140) as well. This opens many new doors and especially also platforms we can serve. Feel free to give it a try and provide feedback

One of my personal highlights is the new tab page, which is in fact a modified and better integrated version of the Garuda start page

It is probably easiest to just take the AppImages as testing material for now.

All of this would absolutely wouldn’t have been possible without @stefanwimmer128, who did most of the heavy lifting when it comes to build system and porting FireDragon to the new Floorp base.

Note: you must create a new browser profile in case you want to continue using the current version of FireDragon. See FireDragon 12 - Beta - #9 by FGD.

Happy testing

SGS · June 24, 2025, 6:36pm

Three cheers for @stefanwimmer128

Kayo · June 25, 2025, 1:58am

Been testing out the appimage, and so far so good!

Having it as an appimage was handy too. Since it separates from the normal install, I was able to troubleshoot some things easier. Apparently the umatrix addon hasn’t been working well lately (for like a month or so?) and servery interferes with media playback and whatnot (even when blocking was shut off for the page). Videos would struggle hard to work, along with other things trying to load. Even on Chromium based browsers, umatrix was acting up… tells you how unmaintained that addon has been (I think all the issue trackers are archived too ).

elite · June 25, 2025, 2:49am

It’s looking good as soon as I’m feeling a bit better I’ll put it though the worst test I can haha. Great job @stefanwimmer128 I’ve been folloing the gitlab. I would have given up and passed the work to SGS. haha Keep up the great work everyone.

Firedragon be moving, I say add it to the MS store for 1$ free version on the git.

elite · June 25, 2025, 4:49am

If I find bugs I’ll just edit this post here. I also recommend testing not on your main FD profile if it crashes it will wipe what you have preset. in .firefox

1.First bug but easy in settings page clicking on firedragon help in the bottom left leads to a 404. Needs link to Introductions.

2.Twitch it looks like you need a use agent extension for videos to play but it might be something else my extensions made it crash and it only likes safe mode now haha. But for now that’s all I’ve seen at a quick glance.

Edit: I’ve tried to break beta 14 and no luck so far. I would say its pretty solid. twitch youtube gitlab/hub all seem to be just fine i didn’t try things like hulu and netflix since floorp is not shipping that pluging.

I think this bit here needs a bit more written out. When enabled, when its using the limited resolutions it “can” create padding around the website that some may find undesirable. or something like that. Since when it says windows one would normally think the full browser window. Not the inner website bit.

dr460nf1r3 · June 25, 2025, 5:33am

I was thinking whether it would be good to restore some of the Mozilla urls we override. They also point to articles in their wiki, and replicating every of them will be super tedious work. This concerns pretty much every place where help links are present.

elite · June 25, 2025, 5:53am

hmm maybe link to a garuda page that has a changelist and a button that takes you to floorp help. FF maybe but floorp did turn off some features.

I think a tab on how to get FF themes would be the most useful for average people. It’s not hard but some people never do it but might want to.

kawazoe · June 25, 2025, 9:48pm

What an amazing timing! The last official update (11.28.0-1) crashes instantly (even in safe mode) when I attempt to load YouTube but the beta works perfectly. Thanks for sharing the progress on the new update!

FGD · June 25, 2025, 10:09pm

The 1st time you load v12 it will update that profile for v12.
Even if everything works FINE and nothing breaks, when you want to rollback by loading v11 it will not want to load that profile (but will still with v12).

And on top of that, old profile could cause weird things on major update like from v11 to v12.

So yes, you need a new profile.

MacTavish · June 26, 2025, 8:26am

Man, that start page is really looking awesome !! Just returned to this community after years and I am very happy to see the progress !!

Technetium · June 26, 2025, 6:21pm

This is a known problem at the moment, can follow here for updates:

github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp

[Bug]: 11.28.0 crashes when trying to use YouTube

opened 06:06PM - 25 Jun 25 UTC

Test-Account666

bug P5 unconfirmed

### Pre-Submission Checklist - [x] I have checked the existing/closed issues to… ensure this issue has not already been reported. - [x] I am using the latest supported version of the browser. - [x] I have tried disabling all browser extensions/add-ons to rule out interference from these. - [x] I have tried clearing the browser cache and cookies. - [x] I have checked with a new profile and the issue still occurs. - [ ] I have provided detailed step-by-step instructions on how to reproduce the issue. - [ ] I have included relevant screenshots or console outputs. - [ ] I have checked that this problem is not occurring in the latest version of Firefox ESR. - [ ] This issue is specific to this browser and does not occur in other browsers. ### Bug Summary After updating to 11.28.0, opening YouTube crashes the browser after a few seconds. Especially when trying to watch videos. ### Reproduction Steps 1. Open YouTube 2. Start a video 3. Wait a few seconds ### Expected Behavior I can watch YouTube videos ### Actual Behavior Floorp just crashes after a few seconds ### Screenshots No screenshot ### Browser Version 11.28.0 ### Operating System Garuda Linux 6.15.3-zen1-1-zen ### Additional Context ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. fish: Job 1, 'floorp' terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)

In the meantime, you can sudo downgrade floorp or sudo downgrade firedragon to 11.27.0-1.

Hamster1962 · June 27, 2025, 10:10am

I’m using Firedragon 12.0 Beta alongside Thorium (Yes, I know!) No problems so far with FD and no sign of the web page issues I had with FD 11*.
A request, in addition to the Garuda Speed Dials, can we have our own, I did try this by adding them which worked but the icons were messed up?

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dr460nf1r3 · June 27, 2025, 12:06pm

This should already be supported, see settings? Unless we are talking about different things of course. And how exactly do the messed up icons look like?

Hamster1962 · June 27, 2025, 2:01pm

It is the 3 fields on create a new link, Settings, URL & Link to Icon. The only obvious entry is the URL. Settings appears to be the Speed Dial Text, URL is obvious and I’ve never seen a link to a FavIcon.

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dr460nf1r3 · June 28, 2025, 5:49am

What about “Icon link” is not clear, I’d happily change it to a better fitting description. It can be either a relative link or any URL.

Takuya · June 28, 2025, 1:44pm

I can’t wait to install this new major version of FireDragon, because 11.28 is giving me the problems I read in this thread, of crashing, most probably because of the .firefox profile, after the update to 11.28.

I’ve been forced to move my main web browser usage to Zen Browser, which has been my favorite secondary/backup web browser, for the tasks I can’t count with FireDragon (Twitch Login, some add-ons, etc).

Are there any plans to be available on AUR/Chaotic-AUR?

Thank you SO MUCH for your HUGE and nice work in this amazing web browser, seriously.

zoeruda · June 28, 2025, 2:06pm

I suspect the answer will be as usual, when it’s ready

I also am thankful the devs decided to have a public testing cycle like this, it will be worth it for the end product!

elite · June 28, 2025, 5:15pm

I know people don’t read but maybe a day before 12 hits the repos a announcement recommending a new profile should be posted. I feel 12 might generate a few to many issue tickets. So having one post to point too when they pop up would be nice.

elite · June 29, 2025, 4:21am

Maybe

Title

URL

Website Link to Icon: Example https://example.com/icon.png or https://garudalinux.org/assets/garuda-purple.svg This might translate better to non English languages, but I’m just guessing.

elite · July 2, 2025, 8:14pm

One bug? I have found with the redone startpage for 12. Since I use the kagi search engine and have it as my default search. When opening a new tab the cursor goes to the garuda search prompt. I type in my search and it shows as https://kagi.com/search?q=&q=garuda (searching for garuda) it show a empty search so I think something with “search?q=&q” is wrong or maybe kagi doesn’t use it.

Either way I was wondering if there could be a setting so when opening a new window or tab it would not default to the start page. So the normal address bar can be used. Or a way to set it manually if I ever figure out what they use.

I know I could just change the homepage but I do like the startpage.