Floorp
uBlock
Floorp | uBlock | |
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33 | 2,992 | |
4,348 | 43,401 | |
7.6% | - | |
9.9 | 9.9 | |
5 days ago | 4 days ago | |
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Mozilla Public License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Floorp
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built in dark mode
How to enable Firefox's native Dark Mode: https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp/discussions/487
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Firefox Got Faster for Real Users in 2023
I'm using Brave with rewards, vpn, wallet disabled and around 20 flags modified. It works much faster, better extension support for me with fewer bugs, less memory usage when fewer tabs are opened. I chose brave because it can sync.
I'm impressed with Firefox and tried a fork called floorp. It has some useful additions and find it better than regular Firefox while still supporting sync and was using ungoogled chromium before.
https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp/releases
Unfortunately some websites still work better with chromium browsers in my experience. This is anecdotal but I also feel some negative fingerprinting from Google owned websites on Firefox, more memory leaks as well. It's only a matter of time before I change to Firefox (forced manifest V3) but I will stick with brave for now.
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Extremely high memory usage on Floorp
Your machine seems to have very low RAM. Nowadays, at least 16GB RAM is recommended. Alternatively, try out Floorp Lightning: https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp/releases/tag/v11.5.1-lightning
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Is it foolishness to expect native dark-mode support in Android Firefox?
Firefox does have native Dark Mode, it's the fastest Dark Mode ever exists, in fact it doesn't even reduce performance like Dark Reader and Chrome's Force Dark Mode, but it needs some cares to be more usable, check: https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp/discussions/487
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which browser is secure and safe while also being fast?
There is no Android version for Floorp yet, atleast officially that I know of.
- Suggestion for Floorp Daylight
- Best Browser?
- Floorp Browser: the Most Advanced and Fastest Firefox Derivative
- anyone use vivaldi or opera? been looking to switch to a different browser
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Picking a browser
For windows download the win64 installer from https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp/releases
uBlock
- Apr 24th is JavaScript Naked Day β Browse the web without JavaScript
- Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads
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Some notes on Firefox's media autoplay settings in practice as of Firefox 124
Check out uBlock Origin's per site switches [1]
[1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...
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Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive
If ads, in particular on YouTube, are the problem, anything Chromium-based is probably only going to get worse and worse (see [1] and [2]). So that basically leaves you with Firefox and Safari.
I work for Mozilla (speaking for myself, of course), so I'll leave you to guess which I'd recommend :P
[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-oppos...
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X.org Server Clears Out Remnants for Supporting Old Compilers
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
Or if on mobile, it is well worth it to look up adblock options for the browser you use.
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Mozilla thinks Apple, Google, Microsoft should play fair
What are the compelling advantages of Chrome nowadays?
Chrome is working to limit the capabilities of ad blockers:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/11/chrome-pushes...
Whereas a compelling advantage of Firefox is that uBlock Origin works best in Firefox:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
Advertising networks have often been vectors for malware. Using an ad blocker is an important security measure. Even the FBI recommends ad blockers:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/malvertising
https://theconversation.com/spyware-can-infect-your-phone-or...
https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624
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Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default
> It allows for 30,000 dynamic rules
That is not what we mean by dynamic filters. From https://developer.chrome.com/blog/improvements-to-content-fi...
> However, to support more frequent updates and user-defined rules, extensions can add rules dynamically too, without their developers having to upload a new version of the extension to the Chrome Web Store.
What Chrome is talking about is the ability to specify rules at runtime. What critics of Manifest V3 are talking about is not the ability to dynamically add rules (although that can be an issue), it is the ability to add dynamic rules -- ie rules that analyze and rewrite requests in the style of the blockingWebRequest permission.
It's a little deceptive to claim that the concerns here are outdated and to point to vague terminology that sounds like it's correcting the problem, but on actual inspection turns out to be entirely separate functionality from what the GP was talking about.
> Giving this ability to extensions can slow down the browser for the user. These ads can still be blocked through other means.
This is the debate; most of the adblocking community disagrees with this assertion. uBO maintains a list of some common features that are already not possible to support in Chrome ( https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b... ) and has written about features that are not able to be supported via Chrome's current V3 API ( https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as... ). Of particular note are filtering for large media elements (I use this a lot on mobile Firefox, it's great for reducing page size), and top-level filtering of domains/fonts.
- uBlock Origin β 1.55.0
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In 2024, please switch to Firefox
> "Its happened before"
> That's not an argument
It's a subheading to "2. Browser engine monopoly". The subsection's purpose is describing how bad things were during the IE monopoly to reinforce that it's something to be avoided.
> in fact you could counter-argue that IE left a lot of technical debt
That would be agreeing with the article, unless I understand what you mean.
> On top of that, the internet was very different back then.
In a way that now makes it harder for truly new competing engines to pop up due to increased complexity of the web.
> I'm still not convinced, why would I change my browser?
The points made in the article are:
* Increased privacy, opposed to willingly giving your data to an ad-tech company
* Helps avoid a browser engine monopoly which would effectively let Google dictate web standards
* Itβs fast and has a nice user interface
Onto which I'd add:
* Content blockers work best on Firefox (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...), doubly so when Manifest V3 rolls out
* Allows more customization of interface and home page
* UX improvements, like the clutter-free reader mode, aren't vetoed to protect search revenue as with Chrome (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37675467)
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Ask HN: Is Firefox team too small to do serious security tests?
Advertising networks are vectors for malware:
https://www.cisecurity.org/insights/blog/malvertising
https://www.malwarebytes.com/malvertising
https://theconversation.com/spyware-can-infect-your-phone-or...
So if you're concerned about security then you want the browser with the best ad blocker.
uBlock Origin works best in Firefox:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
What are some alternatives?
thorium - Chromium fork named after radioactive element No. 90. Windows and MacOS/Raspi/Android/Special builds are in different repositories, links are towards the top of the README.md.
VideoAdBlockForTwitch - Blocks Ads on Twitch.tv.
Betterfox - Firefox user.js for speed, privacy, and security. Your favorite browser, but better.
Spotify-Ad-Blocker - EZBlocker - A Spotify Ad Blocker for Windows
browser - Pulse Browser: An experimental firefox fork
bypass-paywalls-chrome - Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox.
WaveFox - Firefox CSS Theme/Style for manual customization
duckduckgo-privacy-extension - DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials browser extension for Firefox, Chrome.
Waterfox - The official Waterfox π§ source code repository
ClearUrls
firefox-gx - Opera GX Skin for Firefox
AdNauseam - AdNauseam: Fight back against advertising surveillance