What makes Waterfox different? (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago by ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev to c/waterfox@programming.dev

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The first time I've heard about this browser was here on Lemmy maybe 20 minutes ago. A quick look at their webpage says that they use gecko as their web engine, but doesn't specify it bring a fork of Firefox.

To put this in context, most gecko based browsers I've heard about recently have also been Firefox forks. Is Waterfox a Firefox fork? And what does Waterfox do differently that should make people consider it more than Librewolf or another Firefox fork?

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[-] Valso@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

It is a fork but takes on a completely different direction. I knew about Waterfox since its day 1 but back then it had a really annoying bug because of which I stopped using it and went back to Firefox. But Mozilla with their "I don't take"no" for an answer" made Firefox less attractive than ever for me, so Waterfox it is. And the best part is that with a little fiddling with the ini files I managed to transfer my entire profile from FF, along with the custom dir name for my profile. Mozilla keeps making that harder and harder, Waterfox does the opposite.

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