Let’s try LibreWolf, Floorp and Zen until Mozilla decides they want to make a browser again

Let’s try LibreWolf, Floorp and Zen until Mozilla decides they want to make a browser again

  • @[email protected]
    1•14 minutes ago

    Forks are pretty valuable to Firefox development, and it’s helpful for Firefox marketshare too because they use the same UA as Firefox, so website must support Firefox.

    Even Firefox devs said they observe Firefox forks to see their idea and bring back to Firefox, just compare recent new features of Firefox to Zen/Floorp, you would see that the idea of:

    • Profile Manager is from Zen/Floorp
    • Vertical Tab is from Zen/Floorp
    • Sidebar is from Zen/Floorp

    And many small things.

  • Ephera
    3•2 hours ago

    I’m glad that forks are becoming a thing, again. The community (including myself) have slacked off for far too long, just taking it for granted that a browser was provided to them.

    And people got seriously offended by any choice Mozilla made, even though the source code is right there. I get that not everyone has the skill to modify the source code, but enough people do that we should be able to cover various different preferences.

    Would be even cooler, if the grassroots community started pushing the browser forward more, rather than just doing things different from Mozilla, but it’s a good first step.

  • @[email protected]English
    16•11 hours ago

    Been using LibreWolf for a few months and before that just regular Firefox with the ArkenFox user.js.

    Basically the exact same experience just with the peace of mind I won’t end up with some weird Ai crap after an update.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•6 hours ago

      Just downloaded it now with flatpak. I’m pleased that it looks and feels pretty much the same. Just more to the point. Exactly what I want.

  • @kitnaht
    8•11 hours ago

    Everyone always whines about anything Mozilla does with Firefox. These additions are at least much less intrusive than their addition of Pocket.

    • Ephera
      1•2 hours ago

      And Pocket isn’t very intrusive either, is the point you were trying to make, right?

      To my knowledge, it’s the recommendations on about:home, which can easily be disabled, and then just a glorified bookmark to access Pocket. If you want it gone from the UI, set extensions.pocket.enabled to false in about:config.

  • OtterEnglish
    1•6 hours ago

    I’ve been running into more and more bugs with Zen, often around tab management.

    • The other day I tried moving some tabs between windows and the tabs just disappeared. They were still accessible with CTRL+tab but otherwise hidden.
    • It seems to make new tabs randomly when closing other tabs.
    • The workspaces are confusing and linked to individual browser windows. If you move out of a workspace, you can’t get it back unless you open it in the same window you left it from.

    Might switch back to Firefox and wait for more development, or Firefox’s native vertical tabs.

    Cool experiment nonetheless

  • Pasta Dental
    9•11 hours ago

    Zen is really good but I’ve found it likes to crash my Gnome session when it’s open at the same time as regular Firefox. It also likes to crash my Gnome session at random. Other than that I really like it, I’ll try it again soon