Firefox Vs Waterfox

[gokufan]

Guys

I have been using waterfox for a few months it surely seems faster than firefox and also less crashes.

 

[The Sauron]

New version of Firefox are buggy, slow and staler. I am using chrome & IE for regular surfing, but I don't like recently closed tab bar in Chrome, kinda breach in privacy.

 

[dOm1naTOr]

^^

the same can be doe in FF too. Open a new tab and right click on the tab head and there you can see "undo closed tab".

 

[gokufan]

you should try waterfox its quick.

 

[sumonpathak]

^^but wat about add on support? is it fixed now?

 

[gokufan]

^^but wat about add on support? is it fixed now?

yes all my addons work.

 

[pranavreddy]

ctrl+shift+t = open the previous closed tab.

It was always there in chrome and firefox. Isn't it? :O

 

[challapradyumna]

^^ Dont know about firefox but it is there in chrome from many previous builds and That is by far the most productive shortcut.

 

[Devan232]

Waterfox? Never even heard of it

 

[gokufan]

its 64bit variant of firefox,google it.

 

[Devan232]

its 64bit variant of firefox,google it.

As long as its not developed by Mozilla itself, it cannot be a "variant" of Firefox. Stop fantasizing lol, Mozilla already announced that it will release a 64 bit version of Firefox soon

 

[gamingstill]

Its better then FF , no more crashes and slowdowns

 

[Lord Nemesis]

As long as its not developed by Mozilla itself, it cannot be a "variant" of Firefox. Stop fantasizing lol, Mozilla already announced that it will release a 64 bit version of Firefox soon

Its essentially a build of Firefox compiled from Mozilla Firefox code. I don't see anything extra added. At best, there might be experimental features that were enabled/disabled when building the code. So its indeed a variant of the standard Firefox release.

Just to give you guy's some background, the layout engine that Firefox uses is called Gecko and Firefox is just a container for Gecko. There is no native UI in Firefox. The entire Firefox window is just a Gecko layout control inside which an XUL page is loaded to show the actual firefox UI. XUL is markup language like HTML or XHTML that was introduced by Mozilla. It uses JavaScript for interaction logic. A lot of Firefox instabilities are due to the nature of the UI and the fact that it relies on JavaScript.

Since the Mozilla code bases are licensed under LGPL, people can use the code to build custom applications around Gecko like for example a browser of their own. For example, K-Melon is a browser that uses a native UI and uses Gecko only for content rendering. Camino on Mac is also similar. It uses a Cocoa native UI and uses Gecko only for rendering the content. In all such browsers, the web content rendering is still performed by Gecko. but by reducing reliance on XUL, they may gain some stability advantage.

In case of Waterfox however even the UI is same i.e XUL based like Firefox. In fact I don't see anything extra over a standard firefox build in terms of files included. Its essentially a custom build of Firefox. It maybe a little more stable by disabling experimental features in the code and that is all. Its still Firefox in every other respect.

 

[avi]

^like how Webkit is being used in Chrome, Safari & android browsers

 

[nRiTeCh]

Hell. IDM still dosent work with it. Damn!!!

 

[cisco_tech]

Idm integration works fine ronit. Make sure you use latest idm version

 

[GuruGulabKhatri]

Is It available in Portable version?

 

[gokufan]

its more stable than firefox for sure.no crashes for 2 months now.

 

[ReVo_007]

Better than chrome??

 

[gokufan]

may be you check it yourself,I Did freshinstall of both waterfox and chrome and clicked ign on chrome first and within seconds firefox,but firefox was quicker in loading flash content and overall just quicker.