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Florp, the Firefox fork with an awful name, is fully source-available again (github.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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The repository for the previously private submodule is still called Floorp-private-components, though it's public.

https://blog.ablaze.one/4125/2024-03-11/ is a maintainer's official response to... Reddit, which crossposted me apparently. Hooray!

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[–] chalk46@fedia.io 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've gotta admit, it takes a lot of nerve to fork an open source project a bunch of other people put all this time and effort into, change a few lines of JavaScript here and there in the UI, then act like you wrote the damn thing.

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And then people pretend there is any choice in the browser market. Yeah, between Google developed browser and mainly Google funded browser.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ah yes, Google funding a browser to become their default search engine precludes using it

IMO The product is the most important along with being FOSS. You can always use a configured fork without Google funding