• OrdinaryAlien
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    1 year ago

    “In July 2023, Alex Kontos announced that Waterfox had been turned into an independent project again.”

    That’s very recent, I didn’t know.

    I wouldn’t use a browser bought by a shady company when there are good alternatives. I wouldn’t want to support that company by using it.

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      1 year ago

      That’s fair, but I get the feeling Waterfox wasn’t very profitable for them to begin with.

      I personally use it because it fills the very specific niche of re-enabling support for the legacy add-on format by default. You can do this in Firefox and other derivatives, but it’s kind of a pain and it’s easily undone by updates. I don’t know of any alternatives that do the same thing.