Waterfox 6.7.0 – Supernova

31 points by kmfrk 2 days ago|8 comments

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gitaarik 6 hours ago

I tried various privacy / security focused FireFox alternatives, but I found WaterFox to be the perfect balance of this with still good usability.

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tmtvl 24 hours ago

Long time Waterfox user, I really like how their partnerships make it more likely that if/when Mozilla fully goes off the deep end (which they arguably already have), WF can continue on without needing to depend on downstreaming stuff from Firefox.

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pmkary 23 hours ago

Obviously as it is the rule now; everyone is copying Arc. But why not doing it with style? I would very much like to see a browser that beautiful and more functional. This is not meeting that standards.

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MrAlex94 22 hours ago

Not trying to copy Arc per se; Mozilla did all the work for Nova - I actually prefer it, it feels more grounded into how everyone is used to using a browser. I feel like there's little UX innovation left to be had with the interface of this bit of software.

Saying that, I always like adding extras on top - and I've spent a lot of time making sure users can tweak how they like. I didn't manage to squeeze everything into this final release, but the .1 release will re-expose a lot of customisations that are buried in `about:config` preferences.

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pmkary 21 hours ago

The tab sidebar and borders are Arc signature; and Arc has a New Yorkish style blend into it that these browsers don't understand fully. I'm not sure how I can explain it good enough; but it's just that. I don't get the island designs and stuff.

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vedmed 21 hours ago

I don't like this floaty crap, its a waste of space and looks trash. I realize waterfox was not the designers of it, but I complain here nonetheless.

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MrAlex94 21 hours ago

There are a variety of appearance settings - the landing page has a demo of the 3 variations.

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akkartik 23 hours ago

Existing user who had no complaints before, but I have one now: it has started dumping a Waterfox directory in my home directory.

Tried yet again to use their default search engine. Got a captcha which requires me to enable js on a 3rd party site. Noped out again.