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For reference, this is not just the only player in town (for Firefox forks). There is the following: - librewolf (Desktop) [1] - Mull (Android) [2] - Icerave
by bluish29 3y ago
For reference, this is not just the only player in town (for Firefox forks). There is the following:
- librewolf (Desktop) [1]
- Mull (Android) [2]
- Iceraven (Android) [3]
- Mercury (Desktop) [4]
- Pulse Browser (Desktop) [5]
- Waterfox (Desktop) [6]
- Floorp (Desktop) [7] --> This submission
- Pale Moon (Desktop) [8]
- Mullvad Browser (Desktop) [9]
- Tor browser (Desktop - Android) [10]
This list is not inclusive. It probably contains the famous forks.
[1] https://librewolf.net https://librewolf.net
[2] https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix
[3] https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser
[4] https://github.com/Alex313031/Mercury https://github.com/Alex313031/Mercury
[5] https://pulsebrowser.app https://pulsebrowser.app
[6] https://www.waterfox.net https://www.waterfox.net
[7] https://floorp.app/en https://floorp.app/en
[8] https://www.palemoon.org https://www.palemoon.org
[9] https://mullvad.net/en/browser https://mullvad.net/en/browser
[10] https://www.torproject.org/download/ https://www.torproject.org/download/
- O1111OOO 3y agoThanks for this list. I uncovered a couple of Desktop FF Forks I didn't know existed : Pulse Browser and Mercury (not including Floorp, this submission). A couple of months ago it was Mullvad. I'm really happy to see developers taking an active interest in modifying/forking FF. I was beginning to believe that interest in FF was dying out and so I'm finding this submission, as well as this list - extremely exciting!
- _lvbh 3y agoBeen using Librewolf for a while simply because it has good defaults
- BirAdam 3y agoalso: basilisk, mypal, k-meleon
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- webmobdev 3y agoNote that out of these, the PaleMoon browser ( https://www.palemoon.org https://www.palemoon.org ) is the only real "hard" fork of Firefox. The others are all "soft" forks of Mozilla Firefox in that they all just customise some existing settings as defaults or customise the UI or integrate their own extensions of Firefox and rebrand it. The PaleMoon team however forked even Mozilla Gecko ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software) ), the browser engine that is at the heart of Firefox to create the Goanna browser engine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goanna_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goanna_(software) ) that now powers the PaleMoon browser and the Unified XUL Platform (a framework that can be used to create multi-platform desktop applications with web technologies). Another "hard" fork of Firefox Gecko is the Servo browsing engine ( https://servo.org/ https://servo.org/ ) though no browser application has been built on it yet.
- mminer237 3y agoAnother hard fork is Basilisk (https://www.basilisk-browser.org/ https://www.basilisk-browser.org/), which was originally developed by the folks behind Pale Moon but is now independent.
- causi 3y agoGotta admit, being able to actually customize the UI/theme like the old days is awfully tempting. God I miss "Night Launch".
- johnny22 3y agoit's hard to call servo a fork. its more like a ground up rewrite of a browser