Official website (https://www.waterfox.com/)
Waterfox
Waterfox is a free and open-source web browser and fork of Firefox. It claims to be ethical and user-centric, emphasizing performance and privacy. There are official Waterfox releases for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. It was created in 2012 to provide official 64-bit support when Firefox was only available for 32-bit systems.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Waterfox
- Software.logo
- Waterfox logo 2020 (vectorized).svg
- Software.screenshot
- Waterfox in Wikipedia.png
- Software.caption
- Screenshot of Waterfox G6.0.5 running on Windows 10, showing the Main Page of the English Wikipedia
- Software.author
- Alexandros Kontos
- Software.developer
- Alexandros Kontos, BrowserWorks Ltd.
- Software.latest preview version
- G6.0 Beta 5
- Software.programming language
- C, C++, CSS, JavaScript, XUL
- Software.engine
- Gecko, SpiderMonkey
- Software.platform
- x64, ARM64, PPC64LE
- Software.genre
- Web browser, mobile web browser, feed reader
- Software.license
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9 sectionsContents
- Divisions
- Waterfox
- Waterfox Classic
- Vulnerabilities
- History
- Logos
- See also
- References
- External links
Waterfox is a free and open-source web browser and fork of Firefox. It claims to be ethical and user-centric, emphasizing performance and privacy. There are official Waterfox releases for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. It was created in 2012 to provide official 64-bit support when Firefox was only available for 32-bit systems.
==Divisions== ===Waterfox=== Waterfox shares core features and technologies like the Gecko browser engine and support for Firefox Add-ons with Firefox. It is also compatible with Google Chrome and Opera extensions. It disables telemetry by default, which is present in Firefox builds. However, it collects technical information about the user's device to update properly.