Waterfox
Sunday, March 25, 2012 by kona0197 | Discussion: Personal Computing
Has anyone ever used the Waterfox browser? If so, your thoughts? Better than Firefox or Palemoon?
Reply #2 Sunday, March 25, 2012 8:30 PM
It does nothing spectacularly, offers very little in the areas of speed and reliability over Firefox and is broken for about 2/3's of the plug-ins you might want to use with many problems in the streaming video category.
It is less buggy than Firefox (especially in it's current incarnation) but really incompatible or bugged in a lot of other areas.
That's my experience of using it in Win 7 since it came out.
Reply #3 Monday, March 26, 2012 11:54 AM
I used it but went back to the Palemoon x64 version when v11 was released. I just did a clean OS install and I don't have any 32 bit browsers installed other than IE which I haven't even opened.
For all the plugins/addons I use, the only one that won't work with x64 is the Google Video/Voice/Talk/Chat.
Reply #4 Monday, March 26, 2012 12:18 PM
At present, it seems to offer very little in the way of improvements and has many plug-ins which aren't compatible with it.
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Reply #1 Sunday, March 25, 2012 8:25 PM
Waterfox is specially designed for x64. It's maybe a bit faster than ff... no rave rating from me on my system. Didn't check it for memory leaks.