There is a reason for that very few people work on Waterfox. It's not any more powerful, nor ethical, than Firefox. Waterfox’s worst flaws include its underwhelming HTML5 support when compared to Firefox. In the browser’s subreddit, which the site links to instead of a support page, several big issues can be found by critical users.

You might say that this program isn’t as powerful as other alternatives. So, in that regard, all that differentiates one “fox” browser from another is that Waterfox has several privacy options turned off by default while Firefox has them on. However, Firefox already has the option to disable sending data. When talking “ethics”, it means that no data is sent to the Waterfox project or to Mozilla, which does sound like an important step forward. Waterfox tells you upfront that it wants to be an ethical and powerful browser however, it doesn’t do so. So, five stars of course.The consensus seems to be that Waterfox has infrequent updates, and is not yet the powerful browser it says it is. Waterfox did solve (not totally but pretty close) the performance issues that i've been having with firefox and it's as costumizable as the later. It really baffles my mind how does chromium and other engines want to be taken serious with only 4 basic buttons on it's toolbar - it's an insult to any user. So i started to test every other browser i could get my hands on for a week or so ago and it just confirmed that i can't work properly with a browser that, for instance, doesn't let me, fully, natively, and in a simple way, costumize the toolbars. Anyway, i've been having problems with very slow or irresponsive firefox. I've been using mozilla/firefox since its inception. Pros: - as good as firefox, with better performance.Ĭons: - still some performance issues in my own setup (it may have to do with the gecko engine, not waterfox's fault).īottom Line: In my own experience and needs of productivity, Firefox's costumization options and overall layout far exceeds its lack of performance in comparison to other browsers.

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