And that was fine, but until that happened WF offered users an alternative while waiting for it. Also as another example, back before Firefox for Mac had support for MP4 files, Waterfox implemented support for them utilising GStreamer (Mozilla wanted a native approach). Some things Mozilla won’t implement, such as support for WebP images, Waterfox has implemented.

But I don’t really, so I can enable these features (mostly talking about HTML5 features that work here). This makes sense, as Mozilla have other things to prioritize. Once I get WF43.0 all finished up, I’ll make sure to put some benchmarks together and hopefully get some users to test as well.Ī lot of features lie dormant in Firefox, either due to being forgotten or just leaving it for later. For example on my laptop with an i7-4720HQ, Waterfox 40.1.0 runs about ~20% faster in the JetStream (successor to SunSpider) benchmark compared to Firefox 42.0 64-Bit (and Waterfox’ main focus is speed ) ). Intel’s C++ compiler still generates faster code than Visual C++ does and on powerful systems it makes a big difference. The browser development started when there was no 64bit version of Firefox was available, So why people are using the Waterfox when Firefox 64 bit version is available ? The developer answers it as follows Memory usage of the browsers - Lightest browser Earlier we compared the memory usage of the browsers which you can read below Ashwin suggested this browser and I must say that this one is better than Firefox (at least for me). Waterfox registry entries to not use the same as Firefox (Windows Only)įull support for Windows XP (including WebGL, may have to disable Hardware Acceleration)įirefox was hanging on my system, and I wanted to find better browser which is light and faster. Removal of all Mozilla Data Reporting services (properly) Removal of Encrypted Media Extensions (DRM) The latest version of the browser have the following changes The development started on 2011 and now the latest version currently available is 43.0.1 which released last week based on the 43.0.3 Firefox. Waterfox is designed especially for the 64bit operating system. Waterfox is a browser based on Firefox developed by Alex Kontos.

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