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.

Since all major plug-ins are already available in the 64 bit flavor, there is pretty much no reason not to try it out, unless you are not Windows user that is.The consensus seems to be that Waterfox has infrequent updates, and is not yet the powerful browser it says it is. Thanks to Waterfox, a highly optimized version of Firefox specifically designed for the Windows x86-64 users, this 64 bit flavor might gain some momentum.įirst of all, Waterfox is fast as it has no troubles outperforming the 32 bit version of Firefox and there are no compatibility or update issues WaterFox will update itself when there is a new release of Firefox and best of all, the add-ons you have installed will continue to function properly as it uses the same profile as Firefox 32 bit. Even though there are “unofficial” 64 bit versions of Firefox floating around the Internet, none of them have gained any significant attention from the general user base.

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