You can independently uninstall Firefox or Waterfox without issues.ĭownload it from the website or just compile it yourself.Īs of Waterfox 50.0, it is possible to build Waterfox on Linux, making Waterfox available for all major platforms. It uses your existing Firefox profile, so when you launch it you will find everything right where you left it. Less secure for normal users, but gives you back your freedom of plugin choice AND your ability to run older plugins As a result, unsigned extensions are allowed to be installed again. The answer as to the difference between Firefox and Waterfox is basic, because the second of the two has a response time and loading speed that is much quicker. the plugin whitelist was removed, containing mostly proprietary plugins (on install, those plugins will be enabled without the user explicitly enabling them I think this tech is no longer used in Firefox, anyway, but stlll).the Pocket integration (also proprietary) was removed.Encrypted Media Extensions (the proprietary DRM part) are disabled.all Telemetry/data collection things were removed.there are no Sponsored Tiles - they were completely removed.Also, a few benchmarks have shown that Waterfox increases the browser's performance.īut I wouldn't write about Waterfox if there weren't changes related to your "sense of openness" or privacy.
Waterfox is designed to run on those systems, even on 64-bit versions of Windows XP. One of the annoyances of Firefox is that Mozilla doesn't offer a 64-bit version officially, there's only a beta. So what does Waterfox change, and why am I writing about it? It's even so much based on it, you could think this is Firefox.
Waterfox is no exception: It's based on Firefox.