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Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org ·
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Floorp, a Firefox Fork with an awful name, has moved some components inside a private submodule.

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Floorp, a Firefox Fork with an awful name, has moved some components inside a private submodule.

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Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org ·
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GitHub - Floorp-Projects/Floorp-core
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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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    This blog from the maintainer makes it clear they have no interest in open source other than to advertise their own skills

    Preparing for a New Beginning for Floorp

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      Well that’s kind of a shitty thing to say about someone without backing it up with some specifics.

      What specific passage from that blog post makes you think that?

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