Waterfox is forking away from the way Firefox is going to be doing things (basically switching over to being nothing but a Chrome theme). So it will slowly, over-time, lose binary compatibility with any new Firefox stuff, as I understand it. But it will continue to be updated and work just as intended. For the time being, though: it's an almost exact replica of firefox: with all the telemetry, spyware, wrong-think-blocking, bloatware, etc, removed.
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Mustard_Monkey ago
Don't use Google Chrome problem solved.
bluefascist ago
what is an actual replacement though?
I've tried a number of other browsers, and I haven't been finding ones that are even functional with the exception of firefox which I also don't like.
Anyone else having good luck?
pcdude ago
Never had issues with waterfox
bluefascist ago
i thought it was done with updates
thats not going to be good in the long run
TheTrigger ago
Waterfox is forking away from the way Firefox is going to be doing things (basically switching over to being nothing but a Chrome theme). So it will slowly, over-time, lose binary compatibility with any new Firefox stuff, as I understand it. But it will continue to be updated and work just as intended. For the time being, though: it's an almost exact replica of firefox: with all the telemetry, spyware, wrong-think-blocking, bloatware, etc, removed.
pcdude ago
Mine just updated a couple of days ago, so, having heard nothing of that I cannot say one way or the other.
skywalker7777 ago
Waterfox has been around for seven years, and there's a big update coming soon.
bluefascist ago
then I stand corrected. it's probably time to check into these things again and find a winner.