It was made with investor funding and it raised money for Waterfox and charity (giving money to the needy). The copy for Linux was posted on December 20, 2016, after version 50.0 was posted.įrom July 22, 2015, to November 12, 2015, Waterfox had its search engine called 'Storm' based on Yahoo! Search. The copy for Mac was posted on May 14, 2015, after version 38.0 was posted. On March 27, 2011, Waterfox was first posted and distributed (given) by Alex Kontos for 64-bit Windows. This is because some new changes would not work on it. But, it has some security problems that are not fixed yet. It is still being kept up with the security changes from Waterfox Current and Firefox ESR. The browser can also be easily seen as similar to Firefox 57, showing the default Australis theme. These add-ons do not work anymore on copies after Firefox 57. Waterfox Classic is a copy of the browser that uses the older copy of Gecko that still works with XUL and XPCOM add-ons. Waterfox Classic Screenshot of Waterfox Classic running on Windows 10, showing the English Wikipedia.

But, it collects details about the user's device to send the right updates (new changes) to the user's browser. It turns off telemetry (data collection) and Pocket (web service). It also works with Firefox, Chrome, and Opera extensions. They both use Gecko and SpiderMonkey to show websites. Waterfox Current is almost the same as Firefox.

It was first made for 64-bit systems, back when Firefox was only for 32-bit. Waterfox is a free and open-source browser based on Firefox.

Waterfox Current G6.0.7 for mac instal