May 29, 20242 yr 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, 20242 yr by UCyborg Added link to installation instructions
October 27, 20241 yr Author 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, 20241 yr by UCyborg
October 27, 20241 yr 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!
October 27, 20241 yr 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, 20241 yr by NotHereToPlayGames
October 27, 20241 yr Author 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, 20241 yr by UCyborg
October 27, 20241 yr 15 minutes ago, Sampei.Nihira said: Try closing and reopening the browser with the command: about:networking ???
October 27, 20241 yr 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).
October 27, 20241 yr 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, 20241 yr by Sampei.Nihira
October 27, 20241 yr Author 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.
October 27, 20241 yr 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/
October 27, 20241 yr 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, 20241 yr by NotHereToPlayGames
October 27, 20241 yr Author 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...
October 27, 20241 yr 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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