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> "Finally found an alternative to @firefox that supports Adobe Flash without all the errors - @Waterfoxproject works just wonderfully :)" ...no thanks, unless they want to share details of their sandboxing tech.
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I had the exact opposite experience with Intel's "steaming pile of crap" as you put it. We had a computationally intensive app that was sped up by 25% compared to the version produced by MS compiler. This was few years ago though.
Yep, I could totally see it speeding up computationally intensive code - but try downloading it and using it to compile entire code bases with medium to high level of complexity - like ACE/TAO or Qt or any other OSS project. It might compile at low optimization settings but then it's not faster and the moment you try to use optimizations it makes your life hell.
Before we give this the traditional Hacker News baptism by fire, keep in mind that this is apparently just one guy's project, and he's very junior: Waterfox was started back in March 2011 by Alex Kontos, a then 16 year old student. He had a fascination for the web and wanted to help expand on the ideals of what Mozilla had for a free and open web. Be constructive, not snarky.
Well, he's 20 now. And he's stuck with it for four years? That's pretty impressive.
I have tried Waterfox and Palemoon, but ended up settling on Cyberfox. There are optimized 32 and 64 bit builds for both Intel and AMD CPUs which match the latest version of standard Firefox. https://cyberfox.8pecxstudios.com/
This gave me flashbacks to early Firefox download campaigns, and the excitement that surrounded each milestone download count. Seems like such a distant memory now.
I saw the screenshot and was hoping for crapware-free Firefox, but upon downloading it, the damned Hello icon was there in the toolbar. Presumably later versions will add Pocket too, once they start working off a later upstream Firefox version. Meh.
If you're avoiding Firefox because of the crapware specter, you've been badly misinformed. Later versions are going to split out the Pocket nonsense into a separate plugin as well, so the browser goes back to being clean.
I have tried Waterfox and Palemoon, but ended up settling on Cyberfox. There are optimized 32 and 64 bit builds for both Intel and AMD CPUs which match the latest version of standard Firefox. https://cyberfox.8pecxstudios.com/
The latest official version of Firefox have windows x64 builds on the beta and dev / aurora channels (and have for well over a year now): https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/beta/all/
The goal says before the end of 2015... tick tock
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Yep, I could totally see it speeding up computationally intensive code - but try downloading it and using it to compile entire code bases with medium to high level of complexity - like ACE/TAO or Qt or any other OSS project. It might compile at low optimization settings but then it's not faster and the moment you try to use optimizations it makes your life hell.
Getting a recent qt to make clean with any compiler is a pain.
Speed is your selling point, but I don't see any benchmarks!