bork
A red fox in low evening light at the edge of a reed bed

bork

bork 1.1.93 based on floorp

a compact fork of Floorp 12 (Firefox 152)

every sum on one page: SHA256SUMS.txt installing notes are further down

Features

  • Workspaces
  • Tab Stacks
  • Tab Groups
  • Zen mode
  • Split view
  • Share mode
  • Side panels
  • Command palette
  • URLs directly on tabs
  • Chromium plugins
  • Notes
  • Local translator
Metalink

Metalink support Automatic download chunking. A .meta4 file lists every mirror a download lives on plus its checksum, so bork pulls the pieces from several mirrors at once — maxing out a fast line, and rescuing a bad one by routing around whichever mirror is crawling. The checksum is verified when it lands.

Exclusive Firefox Plugin for YouPube SHUT UP SHUT UP blocks channels and allows you to control youpube properly. It adds a SHUTUP button on every video card and it blocks the whole channel. When you SHUTUP a channel it's gone from home, search, the sidebar and Shorts. In live chat it silences a person outright, and a list of phrases does it for you: say one and you are gone for good. A threads view turns the @mentions people improvise into real replies. It is an ordinary extension: remove it and it stays removed.

Download .xpi Add to Firefox

Already inside bork — this is for putting it in any other Firefox. Add to Firefox installs it there and then; the download is the same file if you would rather keep it and use about:addons → the gear → Install Add-on From File.

Exclusive Firefox Plugin for the Press FUCKOFF Outlets you are done with, gone from your internet. Not hidden on one site — gone: their links vanish from search results, Google News, Reddit, X and anywhere else a link turns up, and typing the address gets you a page explaining who owns the thing instead of the thing. Every entry carries its ownership with the date it was true and links to check it yourself, because papers change hands. Hover any result for a FUCKOFF button, or right-click any link anywhere. It ships with the obvious British ones and you add your own. It is an ordinary extension: remove it and it stays removed.

Download .xpi Add to Firefox

Already inside bork — this is for putting it in any other Firefox. Add to Firefox installs it there and then; the download is the same file if you would rather keep it and use about:addons → the gear → Install Add-on From File.

NO TO THIS SHIT

NO AI

No ONNX runtime, no transformers.js, no wllama, no openai.mjs, no model hub, and both MLEngine actors removed. browser.ml.enable is set to false.

No data sharing

No telemetry, no crash reports, no extra accounts, no hassling you.

  • fuck
  • all
  • that
  • noise

screens

bork's new tab page with the workspaces rail down the left and the panel sidebar on the right
Workspaces and the sidebarsThe workspaces rail runs down the left — one icon per workspace, imported from Vivaldi with their own glyphs — and the panel sidebar (notes, downloads, the local translator) sits on the right. ⌘⌥W and ⌘⌥S hide either one.
bork with tabs and tab groups across the top
Tabs and tab groupsTabs and Vivaldi-style groups across the top, the address bar tucked away. Double-click any tab to type a URL straight into it — Enter goes, Escape backs out.
bork in zen mode showing a page edge to edge with no toolbars
Zen mode⌘⌥Z pulls the toolbars and the status bar away and leaves nothing but the page — edge to edge, no chrome at all. Hit it again to bring everything back.
bork with the address bar hidden, only the tab strip above the page
Address bar gone⌘⌥A hides the address bar completely, so the tab strip is the only thing between you and the page. Everything still works the same, just double click to enter URLs on the tabs.
bork with the workspaces rail, tab strip, tab groups, address bar and panel sidebar all showing at once
Everything on at onceTabs and groups up top, the workspaces rail on the left, the panel sidebar on the right. Turn on as much or as little of it as you want with ⌘⌥W and ⌘⌥S.

why this exists

Chrome's move to Manifest V3 deliberately broke full-strength content blocking. bork is built on Firefox, which still runs Manifest V2 extensions, so the complete uBlock Origin — not the declawed Lite version — keeps working exactly as it always did.

coming from Vivaldi?

bork imports your Vivaldi workspaces, including which tabs live in which workspace — it reads Vivaldi's own session data, so a workspace with twenty tabs arrives as a workspace with twenty tabs. Passwords, bookmarks, history and cookies import too, from Vivaldi, Chrome, Edge or Safari.

getting around

bork is built to work with the chrome out of the way. These are the macOS keys:

The chrome controls sit on ⌘⌥ rather than bare keys so they cannot fire while you are typing into a page. On Windows and Linux the same controls are Ctrl+Alt — Ctrl+Alt+A, Ctrl+Alt+S, Ctrl+Alt+W, Ctrl+Alt+Z, and Ctrl+Alt+drag to move the window.

installing

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