![]() ![]() So I am posting this to say if you've not tried it and don't want to go down the chrome opera route as an alternative browser why not give it a try - you might love as I do I had read that it doesn't update, but it does and has just updated today which was very easy to do as Firefox used to be and all my settings are the same. It is like having Firefox as used to be, nice friendly and just well nice. Not finding much I thought I would give it a try anyway and I must admit that I love it. ![]() Then during a search on line I saw Cyberfox and looked on here to see if any others were using and what their thoughts were as this is the first place to look for things. When I started using Mint I chose not to use and thought of other browser and at first used chrome which many use. I stopped using it when it kept updating too often and was no longer the friendly browser it once was. I started using Firefox and was one of the first users of it and remember the excitement of it getting 1 million users, back in the day when IE was the only alternative. It is an ambitious project, but I'd imagine that interest is there both from the developer community and userbase to realize it.I was looking for an alternative to browsers. ![]() The plan to create a startup, fork Firefox, and continue development of a classic version of the browser depends on financing of course. Those who rely on classic add-ons want to pick the Extended Support Release version, others the RR version. This means that Watefox users can pick one of the browsers going forward. Waterfox ESR and Waterfox RR are likely going to happen. The browser is expected to be out this week. The lead developer plans to provide additional details about the future of Waterfox in the Waterfox 52 release announcement. That new browser would use C++ and not Rust as the core language. The new browser would have its own release cycle, which would be similar to Firefox's 1 to Firefox's 3.6 release cycle (less but larger releases). He would then try and get programmers on board that would help him maintain that version of the new browser following in "Mozilla's ethos". He plans to get funding for a startup to fork the last working version of Firefox with XUL/XPCOM to create a new browser out of it. Waterfox ESR would ensure that users of the browser could install and use legacy add-ons in the web browser, something that would not be possible otherwise with the release of Firefox 57 in November (and the subsequent release of Waterfox 57).īut the developers plans don't end there. One that would be migrated to Firefox ESR, another called Waterfox RR which would follow Mozilla's release scheme. The plan, announced on the official Waterfox Reddit forum, would see the team putting out two versions of the browser in the near future. Waterfox is based on Firefox code that has been offered as a 64-bit version for a long time, and ships without features such as Pocket, or Adobe DRM that Firefox shipped with. The Waterfox developer has different plans however. He plans to migrate the browser to Firefox's Extended Release channel, and support it until Mozilla Firefox upgrades ESR to the next release cycle. The lead developer of Cyberfox made the decision to put the browser to rest. When Mozilla announced the deprecation of the legacy Firefox add-on system, and the focus on WebExtensions, it was clear that any browser based on Firefox needed to come up with a plan going forward. The developer of the Firefox-based Waterfox web browser revealed today on Reddit how he plans to to deal with the changes Mozilla makes to Firefox. ![]()
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