{"slug": "floorp", "name": "Floorp", "category": "browsers", "category_name": "Browsers and extensions", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 7, "warners": 1, "score": 2.282, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2025-11-24", "latest": "2026-09-28", "why": "Youtube videos up to 1080p play without stuttering in Floorp", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 2, "compare": 1, "warn": 2}, "spark": [1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Youtube videos up to 1080p play without stuttering in Floorp", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "floorp.app", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://floorp.app/", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Floorp"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 770044064, "item_id": 48127754, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48127754", "by": "vimredo", "date": "2026-05-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used Floorp, and it worked well", "excerpt": "> But I had no web browser that was supported. This might be a new development, but there's like 3 different forks of Firefox that are packaged. See: `pkgman search firefox`, or something like that. I used Floorp, and it worked well, especially considering it was running with 4 gigabytes of RAM on a VM on a system that already had a bunch of applications open.", "context": "", "use_case": "Web browser on Haiku", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku"}, {"id": 755995120, "item_id": 47249695, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249695", "by": "grvbck", "date": "2026-03-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Youtube videos up to 1080p play without stuttering in Floorp", "excerpt": "My 2010 Macbook Pro with 8GB works still. Not a daily driver anymore, but Word, Excel, Lightroom, Garageband, MainStage etc work just fine. Youtube videos up to 1080p play without stuttering in Floorp. It's not quick, but it is useable.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Introduces MacBook Neo"}, {"id": 736506609, "item_id": 46031663, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46031663", "by": "lipbetfox", "date": "2025-11-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I prefer Floorp", "excerpt": "Just use any Firefox browser (I prefer Floorp) with the Temporary Container Plus extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-containers-plus/) and set automatic mode on.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 798168370, "item_id": 49885523, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885523", "by": "rat_on_the_run", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Tried Floorp, same issue.", "excerpt": "I tried to use Firefox. But it's just harder to use: (1) Cannot have multiple bookmarks open as tabs and stay in different location. (2) History is not actually history. The entries update instead of stay as a record. I honestly cannot understand the decision to make it like this. (3) A bug that lasted for years. I have thousands of bookmarks and I'm not sure if it's because of that, often when I add bookmarks in fir", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 761187651, "item_id": 47574228, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574228", "by": "lproven", "date": "2026-03-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Neither did Floorp.", "excerpt": "> The differences of Librewolf and Waterfox is pretty hard to grasp I use Waterfox on Linux and one of the things I like the most is that it works with the global menu bar in Unity, Xfce and so on. LibreWolf, in my testing, does not. My experiment with it ended there, TBH. (Neither did Floorp.) Hopping between Waterfox and Firefox is easy because Waterfox works with Mozilla Sync. I think LibreWolf might not, and I ha", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "15 Years of Forking"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["browsing", "web browser on haiku"], "compared": [{"slug": "firefox", "name": "Firefox", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "waterfox", "name": "Waterfox", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "librewolf", "name": "LibreWolf", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878759", "title": "I switched to Brave", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571096", "title": "This Month in Ladybird \u2013 August 2026", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124002", "title": "Haiku", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545607", "title": "15 Years of Forking", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247645", "title": "Apple Introduces MacBook Neo", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327020", "title": "Is Firefox Firefucked?", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 1}, "2025-12": {"compare": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1, "warn": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 1, "warn": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 798168370, "item_id": 49885523, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885523", "by": "rat_on_the_run", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Tried Floorp, same issue.", "excerpt": "I tried to use Firefox. But it's just harder to use: (1) Cannot have multiple bookmarks open as tabs and stay in different location. (2) History is not actually history. The entries update instead of stay as a record. I honestly cannot understand the decision to make it like this. (3) A bug that lasted for years. I have thousands of bookmarks and I'm not sure if it's because of that, often when I add bookmarks in fir", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 793782132, "item_id": 49611383, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611383", "by": "lproven", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "> if all this effort went in to improving Firefox, or a fork of Firefox Someone tried to instigate that on Mastodon recently. It didn't work. https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/116959309031485270 Spread the word. Contact the developers, ask them. The forks I know about: \u2022 Waterfox -- https://www.waterfox.com/ \u2022 Librewolf -- https://librewolf.net/ \u2022 Floorp -- https://floorp.app/ \u2022 Zen browser -- https://zen-brow", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "This Month in Ladybird \u2013 August 2026"}, {"id": 770044064, "item_id": 48127754, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48127754", "by": "vimredo", "date": "2026-05-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used Floorp, and it worked well", "excerpt": "> But I had no web browser that was supported. This might be a new development, but there's like 3 different forks of Firefox that are packaged. See: `pkgman search firefox`, or something like that. I used Floorp, and it worked well, especially considering it was running with 4 gigabytes of RAM on a VM on a system that already had a bunch of applications open.", "context": "", "use_case": "Web browser on Haiku", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku"}, {"id": 761187651, "item_id": 47574228, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574228", "by": "lproven", "date": "2026-03-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Neither did Floorp.", "excerpt": "> The differences of Librewolf and Waterfox is pretty hard to grasp I use Waterfox on Linux and one of the things I like the most is that it works with the global menu bar in Unity, Xfce and so on. LibreWolf, in my testing, does not. My experiment with it ended there, TBH. (Neither did Floorp.) Hopping between Waterfox and Firefox is easy because Waterfox works with Mozilla Sync. I think LibreWolf might not, and I ha", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "15 Years of Forking"}, {"id": 755995120, "item_id": 47249695, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249695", "by": "grvbck", "date": "2026-03-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Youtube videos up to 1080p play without stuttering in Floorp", "excerpt": "My 2010 Macbook Pro with 8GB works still. Not a daily driver anymore, but Word, Excel, Lightroom, Garageband, MainStage etc work just fine. Youtube videos up to 1080p play without stuttering in Floorp. It's not quick, but it is useable.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Introduces MacBook Neo"}, {"id": 741243938, "item_id": 46327746, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327746", "by": "goda90", "date": "2025-12-19", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "these all appear to be forks of Firefox that are still receiving updates", "excerpt": "I can't speak to the quality of any of these, but these all appear to be forks of Firefox that are still receiving updates as of the last few weeks: https://www.waterfox.com/ https://librewolf.net/ https://floorp.app/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Is Firefox Firefucked?"}, {"id": 740950370, "item_id": 46309398, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46309398", "by": "pilaf", "date": "2025-12-17", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Floorp doesn't strike me as being any less private that vanilla FF", "excerpt": "I'm also still a FF user, but I'm eyeing Waterfox [1] and Floorp [2], both FF forks. Waterfox has the stronger privacy focus out of the two, but Floorp doesn't strike me as being any less private that vanilla FF. 1: https://www.waterfox.com/ 2: https://floorp.app/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an \"AI Browser\""}, {"id": 736506609, "item_id": 46031663, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46031663", "by": "lipbetfox", "date": "2025-11-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I prefer Floorp", "excerpt": "Just use any Firefox browser (I prefer Floorp) with the Temporary Container Plus extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-containers-plus/) and set automatic mode on.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting"}]}