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Floorp, a Firefox Fork with an awful name, has moved some components inside a private submodule. (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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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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[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Even LibreWolf, which is just a Firefox with different configuration by default, I think should be just config files.

I really want to see browsers saving configurations and data in a simple file formats, like QuteBrowser do.

[–] itsmect@monero.town 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You cant remove pocket and telemetry without recompiling. That's why its not just a config file.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 6 points 7 months ago

There are admin overrides for those, I use them.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 7 months ago

You may be looking for Betterfox.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

In Firefox, you can use the user.js file to create any overrides you want.