Posted on 03/29/2024 6:15:43 PM PDT by daniel1212
The way Google has been stepping up its data collection game, it has prompted many people to opt for privacy-focused web browsers that respect their privacy by providing a secure browsing experience.
Floorp is one such web browser that I recently came across that claims to be βthe most Advanced and Fastest Firefox derivativeβ around.
So, join me as I check out this browser.
Being a fork of the popular Firefox browser, Floorp was built keeping privacy and user freedom in mind. It is a cross-platform web browser that prides itself in being completely open-source and not collecting any kind of personal information.
Some of its key features include:
On first launch, it is easy to get Floorp mixed up with Firefox, as it looks very familiar. When I first launched it, the usual quick setup wizard popped up that helped me tailor my experience....
After the initial set up is done, a neat looking tab page opens up with a dynamic background that changes whenever you open a new tab. Then, there were the usual shortcuts, and recommended by Pocket elements. But, they can be disabled if you don't prefer having those...
Not just limited to the web panel, you get flexibility to change the behavior/view of the tabs.
By default, you get a horizontal tab. However, you can opt for a multi-row tab where you get more visibility to your active tabs, making it easy to dabble with multiple tabs. [paste about:preferences#design in the address bar]
In addition, you can also enable vertical tabs, but it is labelled as an experimental feature: [More, by the grace of God.]
Yes, with Windows 95 and 98SE, and for $20 I bought a device that would enable me to answer the landline for about 30 secs without losing the Internet connection! Which was all I paid for Internet since AOL would always give me another 30 to 90 days when I called up to quit (which I would) until I actually found completely free ISP (freeisp.com) service. Only went high speed about 1999. Praise God.
I'll suggest VirtualBox. It's free, reasonably easy to use, and IMO fairly intuitive for the person who is new to virtualization.
There are non-free packages such as VMware Workstation/Fusion, but there's a caveat with VMware, which is that it was bought by Broadcom recently and the future of those personal-use products is not clear.
Those are the two options I'm familiar with; there are others depending on your platform (OS), such as Xen and Parallels.
However, the caveat about Broadcom applies even more to those offerings.
...web browser that prides itself in being completely open-source ...but from the Floorp website:
...The source code for Floorp is mostly public, ...I'm not sure how to interpret that apparent disagreement. Either something is available or it is not, and like truth/falsehood, something that is partly false cannot be called true.
Opinion? Do you happen to know which parts of Floorp are not public (I could not find out with a quick scan)?
bump
bookmark.
Thanks for the ping.
Sounds like a disconnect btwn the reviewer and the source.
Article also says:
If you are interested in the source code, you can head over to its GitHub repo.
Floorp itself says:
The source code for Floorp is mostly public, allowing anyone to view it and contribute to Floorp. Not only is the browser itself open to the public, but the build environment is also open source.
Well, I am in an interesting situation, in that my ISP is HughesNet. I think they must run their system like a giant VPN, because I never see any of the "pinging" from Chinese (and .gov) sources that used to see before. (And if you try to geolocate my IP, it tells you it's in Kansas, 1000 miles from my actual.) I don't go anywhere near porn or music sites, don't even view videos. I do not do any banking online. I do not use Paypal, (which was the source of the last two credit card breaches I had, according to the bank. Those were in 2016, and I haven't had one since.) My email provider is ProtonMail. (I wish that family members would not use Gmail and Yahoo, though.) I do not use WiFi.
Because my Part B insurer won't compile their site to run on XP & FF-52, I was forced to buy a Win 10 machine to manage my online prescriptions. It scares me. I had to give up a bunch of personal info to Microsoft just to get the O/S to start up. I've caught Brave storing my credit card info without asking me. Win10 regularly demands that I back up to Microsoft's cloud. I had forgotten what a PITA the updates from Microsoft can be. Too often this Win10 machine literally will not shut itself down for up to half an hour, unless I pull the power cord and yank the battery.
Lastly, I still use some legacy software almost daily that simply doesn't work properly on Win 10. I'm old enough that I once had to learn UNIX for work, but at 79 I'm fed up with being forced to learn new operating systems. So AFAIC I'm keeping my XP machine front and center until they carry me out in a body bag. /rant
THANK YOU!!!!
Been using Brave, but it’s a bit buggy on android. And a bit of a pig, it seems.
My privacy settings are usually on strict, so many sites don’t work.
Why so many different FF instances? I’m not questioning your obviously guru knowledge, just ignorant.
I mostly run Waterfox but not classic. For addons, I use uBlock Origin, YesSctipt, Tree Style Tabs and Dark Mode 0.4.5
Will check out Floorp
https://floorp.app/en/download/
XP is a 32 bit OS
There’s a Windows 32 bit version and a Windows Portable version.
One of these might work
I use a separate Vivaldi stand-alone browser for both,with no extensions and config. not to remember pws, but have used PP to make many purchases on all my browsers in recent years (usually low-cast items, like bike parts) with no thefts so far, thanks be to God in Christ. Pray and press.
I was forced to buy a Win 10 machine to manage my online prescriptions. It scares me. I had to give up a bunch of personal info to Microsoft just to get the O/S to start up. I've caught Brave storing my credit card info without asking me. Win10 regularly demands that I back up to Microsoft's cloud. I had forgotten what a PITA the updates from Microsoft can be. Too often this Win10 machine literally will not shut itself down for up to half an hour, unless I pull the power cord and yank the battery.
I hear you, but did you search how to bypass this? I myself installed W/11 using a MS account, but you should be able to do so without one, as well as W/10.
You can Turn off, disable, or uninstall OneDrive
You should also install MS sanctioned Autoruns for Windows (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns) which you unpack, and run (best to r. clk. run as Admin) and hit Everything and see what all is loading, which you can deselect.
Also helpful is Process Explorer https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer
Of course, Windows update will often revert changes to autorun apps but if you want,
How to prevent Windows 10 updates
I thank God for such tools. May we use them for God and what is good in His sight.
and I thought Firefox was supposed to be doing all this for us 10 years ago!
How does it compare to Brave?
Cannot say now. I rarely use browsers that do not enable multiple tab rows.I used Brave once but did not see what I wanted, but thank God for choices!
You might find the Simply Translate ext. acceptable: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-translate/
There is a way to uninstall Edge...
Watched a YouTube video and did it, about that 2 days ago...
Just type: "remove edge from windows 10 permanently" in the YouTube search bar...
There are several videos...
It works...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.