Floorp’s development priorities for the coming months

Thank you for using Floorp.

We’ve recently received several reports of bugs after Floorp updates and of conflicts affecting existing features. We’re grateful to everyone who has reported issues and helped us investigate them.

Firefox has moved to a standard two-week release cycle, so Floorp needs to adapt to Firefox changes more frequently. Floorp builds on Firefox with many features of its own, and changes in Firefox can interact with those features in unexpected ways. Mozilla’s announcement about the Firefox release cycle

For the next few months, we’ll generally pause development and rollout of new Floorp features and focus on fixing and improving the stability of existing features.

During this period, we’ll prioritize the following work.

  • Fixing known bugs and crashes
  • Addressing compatibility issues introduced by Firefox updates
  • Improving the stability of existing features such as tabs, workspaces, and the sidebar
  • Strengthening automated tests and regression coverage
  • Exploring ways to safely disable features that are causing problems

We’ll continue to provide security updates and necessary bug fixes throughout this period.

We want Floorp to be a browser you can rely on every day. If you’ve been looking forward to new features, thank you for your patience while we focus on making the features you already use work reliably. We’ll continue developing Floorp and appreciate your understanding and support.

Floorp Projects

Floorp v12.21.2 is now available.

Firefox 160

Floorp uses Firefox 160.0 as its base and includes seven subsequent upstream commits. The bundled runtime displays 160.0.1. At the time of the build, Mozilla's latest official Firefox release was 160.0. Firefox 160.0 release notes · Mozilla security advisory

Designs and New Tab

  • Updated Lepton to v8.7.6. You may notice a change in the color along the toolbar edge and in the spacing of some tab bar buttons. The Lepton design now also applies its content styles to New Tab and Home. #3107 · #3117
  • Fixed missing New Tab shortcut icons in Photon and ProtonFix. #3095
  • Fixed a fullscreen issue in some designs where the page showed through the toolbar when a lightweight theme was active. #3096
  • On Linux, ProtonFix now matches the navigation and bookmarks toolbar colors to the surrounding interface with the built-in Light and Dark themes. #3111

Tabs, menus, and workspaces

  • In Firefox 160, history and bookmark search stay available when sidebar headings are hidden. The sidebar panel switcher also stays available when the launcher is hidden. #3135
  • If a workspace’s default container is unavailable, the New Tab command now lets you choose a container for that tab. #3136
  • Fixed an issue where the selected tab could appear blank after leaving Split View. #3098
  • Restoring a crashed tab now preserves recent navigation and its history. #3090
  • Fixed disappearing separators in the parent context menu when opening a submenu. #3094
  • Fixed the names of built-in containers in the workspace edit dialog. #3092