Waterfox lore - it got acquired by System1 of "Guy Who Runs Three Companies Called Fidelity But Not The Fidelity You Know Probably Doesn’t Care That There’s Already A Company Called System1 That Does That Same Thing As The System1 His SPAC Is Buying. Just saying." 1 and then went private again 2, presumably they bought it back after the stock predictably tanked. Subprime adtech is a strange place.

IMHO should just bring back iceweasel, but what do i know.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

sadly, Floorp is going AI browser. I mean, "choice" to pick the bits of rat poop out browser.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

This is a banger of a metaphor

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think I already said this but you're not making me use something called "Floorp" even if it's the last piece of software in the world. Just come on.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

There is a wall decoration at the Enschede central station listing all the important companies started there by the local university and all but one I had not heard of (which is prob my fault) but those also all sounded like 'Floorp' I get a chuckle every time I walk past it.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Satire died when my friend told me at their Very Serious Corporation with a Very Important Mission Critical Software Stack they use a thing called "Splunk" and it wasn't a joke.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago

Snort with Splunk!

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I used Floorp for a while. (The search engine that dominated the industry was named for a child's nonsense-babble word for 10^100; nobody has a leg to stand on here.) It had a rare but persistent (and thus difficult to diagnose) problem of crashing my laptop hard when opening a private-mode window. Also, they're planning to incorporate AI on an "opt-in" basis instead of rejecting it on moral grounds.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

I only use software named after words that aren’t made up. That is, I don’t use software. I post here by waving copper wire at telephone poles to bit bash my way through the tubes.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

The search engine that dominated the industry was named for a child’s nonsense-babble word for 10^100;

And how did that work out in the long term? There were warning signs!

[–] figjam@midwest.social 8 points 2 days ago

So thats a no on "Floorp" then. Good

[–] TrashGoblin@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago

Zen is AI free, at least so far.