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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.
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.
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.
Snort with Splunk!
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.
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.
And how did that work out in the long term? There were warning signs!
So thats a no on "Floorp" then. Good