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Waterfox – A fast browser

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Post by talles » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 4:23 PM UTC

Waterfox – A fast browser
waterfoxproject.org

Re: Waterfox – A fast browser

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Post by webaholic » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 4:43 PM UTC

I didn't find any info on where they compare performance with firefox. Any links?

Re: Waterfox – A fast browser

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Post by rockdoe » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 4:45 PM UTC

So this is basically older versions of Firefox compiled with the Intel C++ Compiler?

Given that most of Firefox is in JS so the actual code that you end up running is the JIT output, I'd be very skeptical it's any faster.

They certainly don't provide any objective data that it is.

(And if it were, I'd assume Mozilla would just Intel C for the official builds, too?)

Re: Waterfox – A fast browser

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Post by Osiris » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 4:45 PM UTC

My favorite alternate browser right now is Vivaldi [1]. It's made more for power users with a lot of customization options. It's built by Opera's former CEO.

[1] https://vivaldi.com

Re: Waterfox – A fast browser

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Post by sjs382 » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 4:45 PM UTC

Speed is your selling point, but I don't see any benchmarks!

Re: Waterfox – A fast browser

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Post by jvoorhis » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 4:46 PM UTC

> "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.

Re: Waterfox – A fast browser

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Post by Albright » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 4:48 PM UTC

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.

Re: Waterfox – A fast browser

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Post by rockdoe » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 4:49 PM UTC

jvoorhis wrote: post #6

> "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.

They either don't sandbox at all or they backported the new 64-bit NPAPI Sandbox from Mozilla:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1185532#c29

Re: Waterfox – A fast browser

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Post by drvortex » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 4:55 PM UTC

Osiris wrote: post #4

My favorite alternate browser right now is Vivaldi [1]. It's made more for power users with a lot of customization options. It's built by Opera's former CEO. [1] https://vivaldi.com

? Where did you see more customizable options in Vivaldi. Their technical preview is just basically a Chrome reskin and a very clunky reskin, for that matter.

Re: Waterfox – A fast browser

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Post by xutopia » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 4:56 PM UTC

sjs382 wrote: post #5

Speed is your selling point, but I don't see any benchmarks!

It works by placebo!