#WATERFOX FOR WINDOWS 8 MOVIE#

There is no explanation of how we’ll get to choose between “Classic” and “Current.” However and whenever that choice is made available, unless and until I hear repeated, huge praises of “Current”, I’ll play it safe and stay with “Classic.” Also the add-ons and extensions one has installed already in WF probably will still work in “Classic”, but probably not in “Current”. The other browser (WF Current) will be a continuously modernized version designed to keep up with the latest developments, cool technologies, etc., etc., etc.

As I have understood it, one kind of browser (WF Classic) will be, more or less, the WF that we know and like and will continue to be fully maintained. More interesting is the announcement that there will be two kinds of Waterfox browser, and all this will start when the current version (56.2.14) is replaced by the next one. It does not look like a really major change, as far as frequency goes. While only a minority may use any one given feature, everyone is likely to use some other feature that only a minority uses.Īnonymous #1985936 : According to the Web page on WF releases whose link is the second one you gave, at the end of your comment, WF has been releasing until now every six weeks and from now on it is going to do it every four. That may change if Mozilla keeps lopping off features that only a minority of people use… eventually they’ll get around to goring everyone’s ox. If you’re happy with what Firefox has to offer, you probably won’t gain anything with Waterfox. If you are interested in trying out powerful classic addons that can go well beyond what is possible with the weaker Chrome or Firefox addons, or if you have a need for Java or other NPAPI plugins, I’d say to give Waterfox a shot. Now I use Waterfox, so naturally telemetry is not an option, and Mozilla wouldn’t really want data on it anyway.

I had telemetry on when I used Firefox proper… telemetry in and of itself doesn’t have to be bad, if you trust the company to do the right thing with the data, and what is being collected.

#WATERFOX FOR WINDOWS 8 MOVIE#

Mozilla is IMO seriously misguided in their belief that imitating Chrome is the way to get people to switch (thankfully, they had different ideas when the goal was to get people away from IE 6), and they’ve behaved foolishly at times, like with the tie-in to some movie promo they clumsily pushed out to unsuspecting users, but they’re still IMO the closest thing to good guys in the browser arena. Despite Mozilla’s insistence that they had to jettison the classic addons to make Firefox faster, Waterfox remains just as fast as Firefox after all this time on the very same benchmark (SpeeDOMeter 2.0) that Mozilla used to claim Firefox was twice as fast as it had been several versions ago (a claim I verified on my own machine).

I use Waterfox because it allows the large library of classic addons (the kind that defined Firefox from its birth until almost two years ago) to keep working. I wouldn’t select Waterfox based on that alone, personally. Why would your school be concerned with which browser you use?Īll of the telemetry stuff in Firefox can be turned off, and it really means off when you say off.

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