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    2 months ago

    New Firefox forks are quite interesting. I’ve tried it, these are my impressions so far:

    • The UI looks a little bit too much like a generic electron app to me, there is no option for native GTK or QT theming.
    • It seems they ship version that use the newer CPU instructions to optimize the application, I’m not sure standard Firefox does. This is neat. It does feel a bit faster but I’m unsure whether this is because of optimizations or because I have 100x as many tabs open on vanilla Firefox right now.
    • The vertical tabs are very nice. I currently use the “Tree Style Tab” extension and some hacky CSS scripts for that, and this seems like it would work a lot better.
    • The shortcuts are off by default, which is nice, but still seem to be the same as Firefox.
    • It feels a bit buggy. I had to restart the application to be able to load a site.
    • They kept Firefox sync, which I like.
    • You can choose between dark and light mode on the first startup, but I haven’t been able to find the setting again.

    Conclusion Overall, a decent Firefox rebrand. Better tab management, split windows, and workspaces seem quite nice. I would probably consider using it if it put the settings in 1 place and didn’t have any bugs.