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Floorp, a Firefox Fork with an awful name, has moved some components inside a private submodule. (github.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/foss@beehaw.org
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See also https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/floorp-going-closed-source/52783

Edit: They claim they will make that part open source too, eventually, and it is due to behavior of another browser: https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp-core/issues/62

Edit 2: They just open sourced the private repository 7 minutes ago, 2024-03-24T12:39Z

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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Personally I use Waterfox because of its built-in theme preferences, e.g. auto-hiding the tab bar and sidebar headers.

[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Is Waterfox still owned by the advertising company?

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

No, (Captain Obvious,) and I never really got the fuss around that in the first place.

[–] DolphinMath@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh, TIL.

https://www.waterfox.net/blog/a-new-chapter-for-waterfox/

[–] Kissaki@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

The relevant, 2023-07-03:

I am happy to say that Waterfox is independent again.

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