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Flot
Flōt (floht)

Keep a website always-on-top and translucent. For Mac, Windows, and Linux.

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Install

Download the latest version of Flōt for your operating system from the official website or from GitHub Releases

Important Notes About Usage

  1. Flōt embeds a website of your choosing inside of the Flōt application. Some websites do not permit being embedded in this way by default, and Flōt bypasses this restriction by disabling certain web security mechanisms. This should be perfectly safe if you're just using it to view a video or content site, but you should exercise caution by not using Flōt as a general purpose web browser. Those protections within your browser are important to ensure you don't have private or sensitive information stolen.

TLDR; Flōt is mostly a fun toy, and should not be used like a regular browser. Don't do your banking in a Flōt window. Don't enter passwords in a Flōt window. Treat Flōt like it is a "read only" viewer of public web pages.

  1. In order to distrubute and/or auto-update an app on Windows and Mac, developers need to pay pretty large fees to become part of the respective developer programs for each platform. Since Flōt is just for fun, to scratch my own itch, I have chosen not to pay these fees for the sake of this app. This means that this app is "unsigned" and is therefore likely to trigger warnings from your operating system about being from an "untrusted developer". This is expected, and the instructions to get passed this will vary depending on your operating system.

    For mac here is a support page to install an untrusted dmg file

    On Windows, you should just be able to use the presented prompt to open the app

    While I promise this app does nothing malicious, please don't just take my word for it! The code is here for you to see and read :)

TLDR; Flōt may be flagged by your computer as an app you shouldn't open. You can bypass this if you understand the risks. Note that for Mac, this will prevent the app from auto-updating itself, so updates must be installed manually.

Features

Top feature: It's simple and works like a charm ❤️

  • Adjustable transparency to ensure just the right level of visibility
  • Stays on top of other windows and out of your way
  • Optional "detached" mode which will let mouse clicks "pass through" Flōt to the window below
  • Built-in basic ad and tracker blocking
  • Simple and clean design with just the cutest little logo drawn by my wife

Screenshots

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License

MIT. Copyright (c) Andrew Brey

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flot's Issues

Unable to login to GitHub

Thanks a lot for this project. This is really good, and I can now view multiple webpages at once. I have some problems. I use Windows 7 Build 7601, and I installed Flot. I wanted to try using GitHub while I am logged in but I couldn't log in. The webpage loads successfully, but when I put the username and password, it just reloads the page and doesn't log me in. How can I fix this?

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