MsDB 🦘♀🌈:archlinux: :kde:<p>Tis now three or four days since i rebuilt my new profile in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Floorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Floorp</span></a>, from whence this browser has continued to behave impeccably, thus allowing me simply to enjoy the experience rather than needing to troubleshoot it. I rate it really very highly! 🎉 </p><p>There's much i like about it that has given it the decided edge over my previous default browser :firefox_nightly: <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FirefoxNightly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirefoxNightly</span></a>, but the most important of these arguably is the *separate* side panel, & its collection of user-configurable Web Panels i've arranged. Just like in the brilliant <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Vivaldi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vivaldi</span></a>, & its venerable forebear <a href="https://aus.social/tags/OperaPresto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OperaPresto</span></a>, the workflow efficiency enhancement stemming from having web panels as well as the independent tabstrip, is considerable, albeit possibly not immediately self-evident to those who've not tried it. </p><p>As i mentioned in a prior toot, possibly the one dark cloud on my <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Floorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Floorp</span></a> horizon might be its <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ESR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ESR</span></a> base. Over time, given i used <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Nightly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nightly</span></a> in great part coz i like getting bugfixes & new features early, i wonder if Floorp will start to frustrate me, once the feature-gap between its frozen ESR-base & Nightly widens dramatically. 🤷♀️ </p><p>Btw, when i decided to contemplate migrating from :firefox_nightly:, i tested <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Floorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Floorp</span></a> side by side with <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PulseBrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PulseBrowser</span></a> , from which it rapidly became clear that atm PB is no contender at all [for me]. Whilst i DO like it NOT being based on ESR, it has no additional privacy nor UI settings tweaks over Nightly [unlike Floorp], & the killer blow was my shock discovery that unlike Floorp, PB's side panel is not at all independent of the tabstrip, unless one uses its experimental *native* vertical tabs [i only use <a href="https://aus.social/tags/VerticalTabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VerticalTabs</span></a> in my browsers; i abandoned horizontals years ago for their inefficiency]. With the native vertical tabs, PB's panel is indeed separate, but given that both PB's & Floorp's native vertical tabs are flat not tree, in both cases i installed & use <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Sidebery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sidebery</span></a>. Whereas in Floorp this maintains independence of the panel & the tabstrip, sadly in PB Sidebery installs into the panel, thus having no independence at all, & thereby entirely squandering the potential benefit of a side panel.</p>