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What makes Waterfox different? (programming.dev)

submitted 10 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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[–] mintiefresh@piefed.ca 1 points 3 months ago

From what I understand it's mostly Firefox ESR with betterfox already integrated so it's a few steps less than having to harden your FF a bit.

Also, no Mozilla telemetry is nice. Oh and I believe there is support for Chrome extensions.

That's basically what I can tell from a quick glance.