Waterfox, a fork of Firefox that promises greater speed and support for old extensions

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Waterfox 2020.2

Most of the web browsers out there are based on Chromium. Few are saved and at the head of the dissidents we have Apple's Safari or Mozilla's Firefox. But that a software is open source allows us to create what is known as "Forks" of it, and that is exactly Waterfox- A fork of Firefox that has been designed, among other things, to work on computers with more limited resources.

Firefox has made many improvements in the latest versions, but sometimes this also means that they have had to lose weight. Among the ballast released we have some extensions, which is not serious if we do not use any of the ones that are no longer supported but it can be a problem if they have eliminated one on which we depend. If this is a problem for you, Waterfox promises support for "Legacy" extensions, that is, the old ones that the official Firefox no longer supports.

Waterfox lets you keep using the old extensions

Like Firefox, Waterfox also attaches great importance to Privacy. Actually, it is not that they include new functions in this sense, but they have left by default all the privacy improvements that Mozilla's browser has included in the latest versions. Or penultimate, since Waterfox has not yet included the newest ones like the crypto mining software blocking and fingerprinting.

What Waterfox continues to offer and the reasons for using it are as follows:

  • Supports NPAPI plugins.
  • Supports Bootstrap extensions.
  • Offers separate editions for legacy extension support and modern WebExtension support.
  • Cross-platform support (Windows, Linux and macOS).
  • Theme customization.
  • Supported archived plugins.

If you are interested in trying Watefox, you can download one of its two versions from this link. The available versions are Classic and Current and both can be used by downloading the binaries, unzipping the downloaded file and executing (double click) "waterfox". Like the binary versions of Firefox, Waterfox will automatically update from within the browser itself.


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  1.   Fernando said
    ago 4 years

    Hello. Well, call me paranoid, but that's a little scary, right? Knowing that Firefox has removed many extensions is supposed to be because they are not very secure and now we have them in this browser I don't know what to say. On the other hand, if they do, it is because they can be trusted. Will have to try. Greetings

    Reply to Fernando