Hey, everyone!
Whether you have heard about it or not, there is a Firefox derivative that is called Floorp. It is made by a community of Japanese devs.
I started looking for these kind of Firefox projects, because of the many kinds of Chromium types. I’ve been using it for awhile, and have enjoyed the features (after a bit of customization to my preferences) that it offers.
I also use a CSS theme that is compatible with Floorp that is called Shina-Fox. I’ll post the links below for you to try if you think it’s interesting!
https://github.com/Floorp-Projects
https://github.com/Shina-SG/Shina-Fox
(PS. You can change the icon that is included with Shina-Fox by renaming an icon that you prefer, make a copy, and rename them dark and light. PPS. You might also need to move your taskbar icons around, but that was probably just a me error because I was aggressive on how my original taskbar looked)
Let me know what you think!
What are the benefits of it ?
EDIT: Also, there is a very easy way to get the recommend Betterfox user.js! You go into the settings page, and in the search bar, type in user or user.js and you’ll see the options for which user.js you’d prefer to use! I changed mine from the Floorp default to Yokoffing Default. I hope that adds to the niceness for some of you!
For my use case, it was just to use other Gecko browsers just to help show interest in them so that we can have a healthy amount of browsers on the Gecko side too, just as Chromium has plenty of its own derivatives!
Besides that, it comes with plenty of customization, including what a lot of people like about Vivaldi that is a side bar that can be used to install web apps for quick and convenient use while staying on the same page you were already looking at.
For example, I’ve set my side bar up to include Google translate (default I think) and Wiktionary, because I sometimes come across a word I didn’t know before and want to know what it means.
In the top left, if you right click the icon (I don’t recall what it looks like right now, as I’m using the CSS theme above) you can also split the tab. Now, I have a 21:9 screen, so if I want to watch a YouTube video and still scroll on a different website, I no longer have to use the Firefox pop out video option unless I want to do something on the desktop and not the browser.
That’s my biggest use cases for it, and why I appreciate it the more I use it.
Hopefully you can find something you like that it does better than Firefox too! 😁
Thanks for ur response, gonna look à it if it’s on Linux
I gave this a shot about a month ago because it had some features I found interesting, but it felt unstable. The ui also seemed half baked / didn’t mesh well with modern Firefox which made it feel like an early alpha product rather than something for daily use. The project has some really great ideas though so I hope it gets more fleshed out.
I have had a few UI issues too, but it was quickly squared away after a day or two. I mainly use it as my general purpose browser, like quick look ups, and for reading articles. Firefox is always for serious browsing where I need to login a lot, YouTube, and local device handling.
I understand from being here at Lemmy since the Great Migration, that the way I utilize the internet and my browser is very different, so I tend to overlook a lot of things that many others seem to focus more on.
I am sorry you experienced it badly the first time, maybe you can always try again sometime when it feels or looks more stable to you! 😁
I’ll definitely be giving it a shot again in the future! I love the idea of a Vivaldi style experience based off Firefox.