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Waterfox – A fast browser

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Re: Waterfox – A fast browser

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Post by anonbanker »

greggarious wrote: post #110
anonbanker wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wasn't Blake Ross 16 when he wrote Phoenix/Firefox?

Wrote is a strong word, given he had the Netscape code.

Not to say that gecko wasn't a substantial work in itself, but in Phoenix, everything but gecko was new code.

This doesn't even cover how much "Netscape" code was actually in seamonkey in the first place, and how much was the other way around from Netscape 6 on.

If anything, I could have used stronger words.

Re: Waterfox – A fast browser

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Post by agumonkey »

nickpsecurity wrote: post #108
agumonkey wrote: post #100

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Chrome bookmark manager stores a lot less though.

Is there a limit on it or something?

I meant meta data, Firefox has tags and more time information IIRC, thus does more and thus is prone to be "slower".

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Post by rockdoe »

chei0aiV wrote: post #61
rockdoe wrote: post #16

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PaleMoon is even more outdated, it's an old Firefox ESR.

Rumor: "Pale Moon is just a rebranded rebuild of an old Firefox version" FALSE Pale Moon has been on a divergent path with its own code for a long time already. It was a rebuild in 2009, yes. It was a rebuild with minor changes in the Firefox 4.0 era, yes. But we've come a very long way since then with an increasing amount of different code being carried over each time it was re-based on later Firefox code. It's a tr…

You should do your own research rather than believing their nonsense claims. Start by diffing their code against various Firefox releases.
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