The Best FireFox Browser

[chrislowles]

My favourite part about Floorp is they're actively working one of my favourite features from Edge (Native Vertical Tabs) into a fork of Firefox, it's not perfect and in the meantime they're just recommending addons like TST but once it's ready it'll be the ultimate browser personally.

Edit: PWAs too!

[alecs]

I've been using Floorp for a few months already and I'm happy with the actual performance and customization possibilities. Aside from the usual drawbacks that Firefox also has (e.g. some websites that are optimized for Chromium only), it's better than Firefox for me. Hell, even RAM consumption seems to be lower (but don't expect humongous differences) than on Firefox - though now I don't care that much about this since I built another PC with much more and faster RAM, but it is important for people that use low-end machines, for instance.

For Chromium-related stuff, I just keep ungoogled-chromium with some extensions installed, in case I need it. It's simple and efficient.

[demonwares]

Firefox has been my primary browser for over a decade. The only thing Firefox is missing, and I don't know what the hold up is, is it doesn't have HDR support on Windows (but it does on Mac and Linux). I have to use chrome for YouTube because Firefox doesn't have it. There are no signs of HDR support anytime soon either, I don't get it.

[arxaaron]

I believe the Firefox ESR denotes the "Extended Support Release" that continues working for "legacy" OS systems (like my Mac OSeX 10.13 installs) after full support and development has been forced to. move on to newer OS releases.

[ariathyf]

Sounds like good news.
Mullvard, Mercury, LibreWolf, Tor .. those are already nice alternatives but since it's better to have more choices I'll try this Floorp out to see how it measures.
Good to see the Chromium dev cleaning up its fork, this project didn't needed to spawn such unnecessary trouble.

[espi]

I'm not gonna lie, I wouldn't trust browsers not made by a gigantic company with heaps of cash and developers behind.

Web browsers are a central point of our life nowadays, and not having a gigantic security team behind is simply a deal breaker.

This kind of smallish browsers, the second they fall a bit behind pulling the latest update, they are leaving you unprotected. And because they don't have a large team behind the bus factor is smaller, one or two people get sick, someone retires, etc. and suddenly they missed an update.

I just use Firefox and live with its flaws.

[waytakaq]

I love this Browser because it has the vertical tabs like Microsoft Edge.

[jameswalker]

The biggest surprise is that Floorp is developed by Japanese high school and junior high school students.

[thekontza]

Floorp is nice. If they only added similar functionality to vertical tabs as Arc has. Namely the possibility to add 'folders' for tabs. Yes, I know I could add an extension for it, but it'd be nice to have it baked in.

[morxemplum]

Hey. It’s that browser I’ve been using for a few months now! Yeah, Floorp feels like if Firefox became Edge, minus the spyware.

[ericmackrodt]

I'm not moving away from Firefox simply because I don't want to lower its market share.
If Firefox had a huge market share, I'd definitely use an alternative browser.
I know I'm one use and I probably won't make a difference, but we do need more people using Firefox for the sake of browser diversity.

[thestreamreader]

Downside is it does a lot of reaching out to a lot of different domains. Just watch the traffic with any packet capture tool. Would be worth detailing the need for each of these to comfort the community.

[BoxCox]

The biggest selling point for me, ironically, is the ability to hide tab bar. I exclusively use treestyle tabs and the wasted space drove me nuts.

[sae]

Thanks for introducing me to this browser, I had never heard of it. I decided to switch from Chromium based browsers to Firefox based ones and ended up missing one feature that stuff like Edge, Opera and Vivaldi have and it might sound dumb, but the sidebar, and is something I gave up for Waterfox, but now I don't have to as sometimes you have things you regularly check/look at/use and don't want to navigate to the website sometimes and the sidebar is convenient for setting up pages/web apps like that.

Plus it has a couple of features I was using plugins for (like the spoofing) and seems pretty solid performance wise.

[eckee]

I have a dream browser. Website being displayed on the main window, with no top bars, that can stretch from the bottom to the top of the monitor. Everything else, address bar, extensions, tabs on a side panel or two on either or both sides. We're not using 4:3 monitors anymore and websites aren't designed to be shown in wide pages anyway. We have abundance of horizontal space and limited vertical space but we're utilizing them in the wrong way.

That's actually a dream design for me for all apps displayed on wide screens.

[plutorocks]

Chris next video:
I'm returning to Brave browser

[JangGaming]

This browser is great, and some of its hidden features are very neat too, for example about to run addon inside Sidebar, and customizable hotkeys, something most web browsers don't have.

[VentureNW]

Thanks Chris! Have been a FF user for a very long time. Lately, I've been bouncing back and forth between Brave and FF, due to the issues with YT (issues being ads).

[smudgey]

If anyone is interested. I compared Firefox and Floorp on Arch Linux both using the exact same tweaks and extensions and both were exactly the same speedwise. Thorium and Chromium were indeed faster than both of these though but that could also have to do with both of those having less extensions installed. I also did a Thorium vs Chromium test and Thorium was 0.28 secs faster than Chromium. Not really enough to bother switching but if I was ever gonna use an Ubuntu distro again I'd probably slap both of these on it so I wouldn't have to bother with snaps or finding deb files.

[sumbodee]

It has the best customization. Vertical tabs and address bar on bottom made me really happy!