UCyborg Posted May 29, 2024 Posted May 29, 2024 (edited) Recently read about this one, it appears to be one of the more interesting forks of Mozilla Firefox. More knobs in settings, sidebar, keyboard shortcuts; among other things, there's a knob for tab bar below toolbars, some update settings controllable through GUI like in old Firefox versions (there's no "Never check for updates", but the option to choose to install them is there), JPEG-XL support enabled by default, knob for turning on userChromeJS script support... There's also Web Apps feature, I guess equivalent to Chromium's "install website as app". Available x86 and x64 builds for Windows, x64 and aarch64 builds for Linux and a version for macOS (guess whatever's current in the Apple world). Homepage: https://floorp.app/en Downloads: https://floorp.app/en/download Installation instructions: https://docs.floorp.app/en/introduction/installation/ Edited June 2, 2024 by UCyborg Added link to installation instructions 3
UCyborg Posted October 27, 2024 Author Posted October 27, 2024 (edited) Finally got around installing this browser at home desktop. Got crash of default-browser-agent.exe during install, it crashed in mozglue.dll with exception 0xC000001D, stands for EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION. Obviously, the browser didn't launch afterwards either. Judging by where x64dbg halts, looks like it wants at least SSE4.1 instructions. Found this issue afterwards and looks like it won't be addressed. Edited October 27, 2024 by UCyborg
NotHereToPlayGames Posted October 27, 2024 Posted October 27, 2024 I admit that I totally forgot all about it. I've been very VERY turned-off with ANYTHING forked from Mozilla. 239 DNS Connections with Floorp's very first launch! Yes, there are ways to mitigate "some" of them, but not all of them!
NotHereToPlayGames Posted October 27, 2024 Posted October 27, 2024 Of course I had to laugh at this one during install -
Sampei.Nihira Posted October 27, 2024 Posted October 27, 2024 Try closing and reopening the browser with the command: about:networking
NotHereToPlayGames Posted October 27, 2024 Posted October 27, 2024 (edited) Was surprised by this - IceCat has ZERO dns connections on first launch! ZERO! (which is exactly how many I have with my Ungoogled Chromium setup) Edited October 27, 2024 by NotHereToPlayGames
UCyborg Posted October 27, 2024 Author Posted October 27, 2024 (edited) So much for privacy claims. Is there a single normal web browser out there these days? Edit: Oh, IceCat, kinda overlooked... Was just looking to have a bit more updated Firefox install, though TBH I'm not sure it's even worth the bother. Edited October 27, 2024 by UCyborg
NotHereToPlayGames Posted October 27, 2024 Posted October 27, 2024 15 minutes ago, Sampei.Nihira said: Try closing and reopening the browser with the command: about:networking ???
NotHereToPlayGames Posted October 27, 2024 Posted October 27, 2024 12 minutes ago, UCyborg said: Oh, IceCat, kinda overlooked... I know you're not a Speedometer fan, but... Floorp scored 114 in my VM (exact score as Ungoogled v122). IceCat only scored 63 in the same VM (Win10 wit 2G RAM).
Sampei.Nihira Posted October 27, 2024 Posted October 27, 2024 (edited) 14 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said: ??? These are the connections established by the browser.... P.S. Close the browser Then open the browser and enter the command.............. Edited October 27, 2024 by Sampei.Nihira
UCyborg Posted October 27, 2024 Author Posted October 27, 2024 You're comparing 115 ESR codebase with 128 ESR codebase with altered compiler flags though. This old dinosaur won't run anything SSE4.1. I can't get myself to throw it away just yet since it still works well otherwise. And even if I don't throw it away, it'll probably just collect dust in the basement.
Sampei.Nihira Posted October 27, 2024 Posted October 27, 2024 6 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said: I know you're not a Speedometer fan, but... Floorp scored 114 in my VM (exact score as Ungoogled v122). IceCat only scored 63 in the same VM (Win10 wit 2G RAM). There would also be this test,now very dated: https://browseraudit.com/
NotHereToPlayGames Posted October 27, 2024 Posted October 27, 2024 (edited) Floorp only has 16 21 once you jump through some minor hoops. I suspect these 16 21 require some in-depth hacking like we did with 360Chrome. Problem is, though, ONCE YOU PERFORM THAT FIRST LAUNCH, the telemetry damage is already done! (I would have disabled network entirely but I was inside a VM, so I let it do it's "defaults"). about:networking for IceCat - about:networking for Floorp - about:networking for Official Pale Moon - Edited October 27, 2024 by NotHereToPlayGames
UCyborg Posted October 27, 2024 Author Posted October 27, 2024 BTW, why not at least use newer Speedometer for more capable browsers? I only tried Floorp briefly at work months ago, but wanted to get more familiar with its bells and whistles in a cooler environment. Didn't know back then it's SSE4.1+ only. I know I could probably build from source and turn off SSE flags, but I hate building from source unless I really have to...
Sampei.Nihira Posted October 27, 2024 Posted October 27, 2024 8 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said: Floorp only has 16 21 once you jump through some minor hoops. I suspect these 16 21 require some in-depth hacking like we did with 360Chrome. Problem is, though, ONCE YOU PERFORM THAT FIRST LAUNCH, the telemetry damage is already done! (I would have disabled network entirely but I was inside a VM, so I let it do it's "defaults"). I have 7 with Firefox. But push notifications I need for online payments,certificate connections I need for HTTPS always,phishing/malware connections I need for browser security,then there is my DNS,and the DDG search engine I use as the only default.............
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