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blog.craigie.dev34 points by probablyrobert a day ago
34 points by probablyrobert a day ago
I haven't looked at the source too deeply yet to investigate how you implement the fork, but you state that it's a fork of Firefox, how do you plan to integrate fixes from Firefox (security, etc)?
It's implemented as a set of patches + new files for net new files I add myself, then to build it, the firefox source is downloaded and patched automatically - so bumping the underlying firefox version is generally very easy.
I'm currently actually tracking the firefox beta channel because the frequent small updates are so easy to do.
While this isn't quite my cup of tea, it's nice to see Firefox being forked instead of Chromium. With this, there's now at least three significantly modified Firefox forks, alongside Zen and Floorp.
Whoa, so excited to try this out! As a regular Firefox user, does it pull over my settings?
Currently the easiest way to pull over settings I'm aware of is to use Firefox Sync[0]. I haven't looked into other settings import solutions yet.
Author here - happy to answer any questions :)