betterbrowser / arcfox

Make firefox flow like arc

BetterBrowser

What is betterbrowser?

A compilation of browser modifications and browsers that makes the internet experience better.

With the core of reinventing the internet, betterbrowser is the team that works to make the internet experience better by making it a more safe, fun and private place made for you

BetterBrowser is a small open-source team so please don't rush our projects, we do the best we can.

Why?

We believe browser have lost some of the things that made then so incredible, browsers should be customizable, adjustable, comfortable to use and private. Browsers are the viewport of the internet and i believe it should be a place as good as you want.

Who we are?

You can see our "official" members here but we are betterbrowser. BetterBrowser is a community (and not the one on discord linked on our site). BetterBrowser is a community of people that believe we can improve the internet experience. A community that wants the internet to be like it was in the past or simulate what it gonna be in the future. A community that wants a better viewport to the internet, a BetterBrowser.

arcfox's Issues

transparent gap between sidebar and body

I noticed some sort of gap here after applying userChrome.css

Further inspecting it using devtools revealed it being splitter#sidebar-splitter being transparent. However I do see that it is set to transparent in userchrome.css, is this the expected behavior?

I'm running Firefox 124.0.1 on nixOS btw.

Extensions

It would be great if there was a way to access my extensions, they are usually near the address bar, but I'm not sure how to access them with Arcfox. Thanks!

No userChrome in releases

There doesn't seem to be a userChrome.css file in releases. I can still use this file though, so no worries, just letting you know.

Close button doesnt show on long tab names

As the title suggests, the close button does not seem to show on long tab names

Rounded corners in fullscreen

Fullscreen isnt actually fullscreen the corners are rounded which gives it an unsettling look.

Add support for middle click to close tabs

On mice, if you click the scroll wheel, on basically every browser, it will close the tab that you are hovering over. Would be a cool addition!

Move the project into tools designed for maintaining a webapp

While moving with features like
https://github.com/use-arcfox/arcfox/pull/37
and
https://github.com/use-arcfox/arcfox/issues/29

It would be beneficial to throw the current codebase into tools for maintaining bigger codebase.

I suggest maintaining userChrome.css as a sass project and the rest as a ts+react app and patch it together inside a turborepo, in this way we would benefit from typings such as
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@types/firefox-webext-browser
and splitting the codebase into smaller modules, so support for spaces/more features would be easier to add.
On top of that it opens the option to do a development test-app that would help preview changes to the extension on the fly so we could skip most extension reload/userchrome restarts.

I can showcase how the switch would work in a PR if this will be accepted.

Voice calls don't work for telegram group chat in Firefox browser

When ever i try to try to join a call it says that my browser does not support telegram group voice chat.
how to fix it?

Little additions to the project

Hi!
I‘ve found some plugins/addons to replicate Arc functions:

• Boosts — Firemonkey solves almost everything, except the ui (sadly, it‘s closed-source);
• Easels — this bookmarklet can be combined with in-url encoding for sharing;
• Notes — unfortunately Notes by Firefox is discontinued, and remaining ones (Bookmark notes, Notefox) do not have syncing built-in.

Explain Library and Launch

Hello,
I am moving the project on fork to be organized more like a modern webapp, but I miss few details (if those changes will be welcome on the main repository - I would happily do a PR)
I don't understand what "library" and "launch" are meant to be (it is importatnt to know if they are subprojects of arcfox (so relation between core, userChrome, sidepanel, library and launch are subprojects that are meant to produce a build) or (f.e.) sidepanel and library/launch aren't subprojects and they as a whole are subproject.
(feel free to ask questions, I think my wording is quite sloppy here)

whenever I press back button to go to my previous page it skips 1 page

Can't move window

I installed it using the steps but I just can't move my window like I used to be able to using the top border and dragging... Is there a special spot that I don't know about or is this a glitch? I'm using Parrot Security OS KDE, i5 10th gen 8GB RAM laptop

How to open side bar

This is a brilliant work !
Everything work nicely.
But I don't know how to open the ArcFox side bar once I close it.
There's probably a shortcut I'm missing.
(by side bar, I mean the bar where I can navigate between my tabs)

Title Bar Buttons only update fill color on hover

Hey,
first of all great project. I really like the idea of having an arc like workflow within the open source firefox context.

So.. when I hover over the three little buttons in the top left corner, to either close, minimize or expand the window, they only update their fill color to a brighter grey. The functionality works flawless though.

Expected: change color and icon similar looking to safari, to indicate button behavior.

On Pop!_OS 22.04

Defined Keymaps

Going to make the switch from Brave. Awesome Stuff. Maybe I'm just an idiot but I can't for the life of me figure out the keyboard shortcuts.
Do I use standard firefox keymaps? Are there custom keymaps? Maybe a nice wiki would help. (I'd be willing to write it)

Asking because I can't get out of the history window in the sidebar. No matter what I press, I can't go back to the home sidebar.

Please and Thanks. It's likely I'm just missing something.

Provide a tutorial on how to revert to default Firefox

Hello!

I am excited to try ArcFox, but I am weary to try it in its current state in case I do not like it/of bugs. I would greatly appreciate a tutorial on how to reset Firefox to its settings prior to undergoing to ArcFox treatment.

Thanks!

UI broken in LibreWolf

I have a freshly installed LibreWolf and added the plugin as well as the css in the chrome folder. I have a very funky header section though. I'm on macOS Sonoma and LibreWolf 121.0-1

Use user's search engine

Hello! It would be great if the users search engine would be used instead of google, which many prefer not to use for privacy reasons. Thanks!

about: pages don't work

I'm trying to open some about: pages, like settings, profiles and config to customize firefox, however I'm just sent to Google

Open sidebar when hover left on focus mode

dextarus#7634 Recently asked on arcfox discord (https://discord.ggC2aGfAgAHk) if it's possible to open sidebar when you hover the left border like arc does, at the moment no, but that's a nice feature and i'm implementing soon :)

Feature Requests

This looks and works great.
A few things:

• add the ability to change the color of the browser frame
• better support for friefox based browser, such as librewolf, i.e. browser default is still google.
• on librewolf, there is a black bar between the sidebar and main frame

thank you

No releases?

Hello there!
I think you might've forgotten to upload the release, since there is none!

Discord link in README doesn't work

I don't have permission to reopen an issue - consider this issue a reopen of
https://github.com/use-arcfox/arcfox/issues/36

No round border on the right side of browser window?

At the moment, there is no rounding on the right side. Is this intentional design choice? It kinda bugs me that the left and the right side is not balanced...

I currently have modified the userChrome.css file, and the diff out is shown below:

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>   border-top-right-radius: 10px;
>   border-bottom-right-radius: 10px;
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< }
\ No newline at end of file
---
> }

Anyways, thanks for the extension, and I look forward to the official v1.0 release!

No other search provider than Google

The top-left address bar should probably be using the default browser search provider (or there should be a clearly communicated way of changing this in extension settings). Currently it's always using google.

TreeStyleTab

Would an installed ArcFox be able to integrate https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab ?

Uninstalling arcfox

Hi, I tried to install Arcfox addon with the theme according to the manual. I was disappointed to see, that the addon is in early stage of development (missing spaces, no way to drag the window,...). Now, I would like to uninstall the addon. But after uninstalling, the firefox is broken (looks like arcfox without the left tab).
Is there something I am missing?

I tried:
uninstalling addon -> removing css file -> disabling Customizations.stylesheets
uninstalling addon -> disabling Customizations.stylesheets -> removing css file
disabling Customizations.stylesheets -> removing css file -> uninstalling addon

With Firefox restart between each step.
Please, help me get firefox back to default.

Sidebar tab names don't update

I'm aware of this problem and i'm trying to solve it. At the moment i managed to make the names update, but then the active tab is lossing it's css :(

When i fix it. The update is coming

Sidebar doesn't reflect tab being closed when using CTRL+W hotkey to close current tab

Tabs closed with CTRL+W hotkey remain visible in sidebar.
They can be removed from view with the x button.

Hamburger menu

It would be great if there was a way to get to Firefox's hamburger menu from Arcfox. Thanks!

Sidebar not show

Hello ,i installed according to the instructions , but the side panel does not appear , it looks like this ? what could be the reason ? https://i.postimg.cc/mrwYJSt5/Screenshot-20230423-112629.png

Fullscreen videos have border around them.

The border doesn't disappear in full screen windows.

Add support for bookmarks

Just a simple bookmarks bar would be cool, idk how hard it would be to implement this though, I don't usually fuck with browser customization, just python and firmware.

Close Button Hidden Sometime.

Sometime the Tab Close Button was hidden. But it still show for some second and it's go away

Here a video when the Close Tab Button appears for some seconds.

Integrate some extensions

We could integrate or create some extensions like uBlock Origin for boosts, and make our own extensions to change the colors of the browser.

Discord link in README doesn't work

As in the topic, do you form sort of community around this project?

Alt+Q doesn't work on both Windows and Arch Linux

cf : https://github.com/use-arcfox/arcfox/blob/1b22f9190e8d9cb80a85b32de927abb78ad74778/core/manifest.json#L28

I tried on both Windows 10 and Arch and it didn't work.
I will mess around with manifest.json or with core/src/background.js to see if I can fix it.
Dunno if I'm the only one with this issue...

Show navigation toolbar on hover

Currently navigation toolbar is hidden. This makes working with extensions impossible. It would be pretty nice if navigation toolbar is exposed on hover like arc does it.

open a link in a new tab does not update sidebar

It's something that I noticed but have no idea how to fix it.
Basically when I open a link in a new tab, the sidebar does not get updated.
In order to see it, I have to manually add a new tab and then two tabs will automaticaly pop off : my link and the new tab I just added.

Multi-account container pop-up hidden in Arcfox theme when using keyboard shortcut

Thank you for a wonderful product! I use Firefox's multi-account container plugin, and like to use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-. to pull up the plugin's context menu. However, when I do this with the Arcfox CSS theme, it quickly hides the context menu. Only when I mouse over the menu bar and keep the menu bar showing can I see the context menu when I use the keyboard shortcut.

Support of Arc "Spaces"

Is there support for the arc typical spaces already? If yes how to create one?
Because on my two machines the plus button in the bottom right of the sidebar shows new tab, but not something like new space.