![]() Waterfox is available in two editions Standard and Classic. Moreover, there is no plugin whitelist, you can run whichever extensions you like and absolutely no data or telemetry is sent back to Mozilla or the Waterfox project. It’s partnered with Ecosia, a search engine that plants trees with its generated revenues (Ecosia is the default search engine of the browser). Today, it has over 6,000,000 downloads spanning 180 countries.Īlex Kontos created the browser to focus on giving users choice while also helping make the world a better place. It was started back in March 2011 by Alex Kontos, a 16 - year old student. It was also one of the first widely distributed 64-Bit browsers on the web and quickly gained a loyal following. Waterfox was the first community Firefox built to release a 64-Bit version of Firefox 4 when it first came out. It contains modifications designed to take advantage of the 64-bit system architecture and provide speed improvements over Mozilla’s flagship browser. Waterfox browser offers many optimizations compared to the original Firefox source code and puts a focus on performance and speed. So unfortunately, Waterfox seems to be outgrowing me at a pretty rapid pace, and I'm constantly forced to use my backup of Opera even though I hate the layout, and I know it's probably logging every move I make, I just need that 1.5 gb of memory for other things.Waterfox is an open-source, high-performance Firefox-based browser for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, that is designed specifically for 64-bit systems and for privacy and user choice in mind. If I tried to switch to another app I'd be looking at a beachball for ten minutes, I can't even imagine what it would be like to try to work while it was playing video. And, say I wanted to have a baseball game running in the background while I did something more productive. It launches using a not great but acceptable half gig, but after a day of average usage, it's usually sucking up triple that amount. Speaking of which, boy does this thing piss away memory. I understand that Alex really needs to change the icon, so maybe he can have a "Make My Icon" contest or something. The new icon really looks like a blue fox urinating. This version has been out for 20 days or so, so this isn't just a first impression. Moreover, I was using Waterfox Classic to be as close as possible to pre-Quantum Firefox, so when I read that it should now be considered "best effort", that achieved to decide me. I'm not saying that Waterfox is worse than other browsers, privacy wise, but I'm simply not convinced that it's better than Firefox for that matter - provided you use all the necessary addons and set the right settings in about:config. ![]() :-o I've not been convinced by his answers to the doubts expressed by the other users, and while I've been a happy user for years I finally switched back to Firefox a few months ago. The dev used to put an emphasis on privacy but since he recently partnered with a firm that arose some doubt about data collection (System1), he wrote in a forum that we users had misunderstood and Waterfox never claimed to be a privacy focused browser. No need to download external packs or weird configuration files!Īfter a few years using Waterfox instead of Firefox Quantum, it became harder and harder to tell the difference and why, in the end, I was using it.
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