On 03/30 10:36, Dale wrote: > tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > On 03/30 09:45, Dale wrote: > >> tu...@posteo.de wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I switched to waterfox for privacy reasons and it supports the older > >>> plugin system. > >>> No need to stay to older version (keeping older bugs, which may > >>> affect seurity) ... > >>> > >>> Waterfox is opensourced and it has a smaller memory footprint. > >>> > >>> https://www.waterfoxproject.org/en-US/ > >>> > >>> No advertising intended...I am only an user. > >>> > >>> Cheers! > >>> Meino > >>> > >> I ran up on a site where that was talked about. It's not in the tree > >> tho. How did you install it? Is it just download and run it from > >> command line or a manual addition to the menu system? Is there a > >> overlay with it in it? While I like Firefox, the memory hog that it > >> sometimes is, I'm not opposed to switching to something else. > >> > >> Thanks for the info. > >> > >> Dale > >> > >> :-) :-) > >> > > Hi Dale, > > > > I downloaded the archive, unpacked it in a separate directory, moved > > that to /usr/local/., made a symlink from /usr/local/bin/waterfox to > > the executable in that directory and: DONE :) > > > > Ok...I did an entry inti menu.xml of my openbox...manually ;) > > > > Since waterfox is contained in a single directory, gentoo will not be > > "polluted" and the removal/upgrade of waterfox is easy. > > > > It is not the original genuine sacred of Gentoo, though. ;) > > > > Cheers! > > Meino > > > > Cool. I was peeking into overlays and was having no luck at all. I > thought I found it twice but it seems they were removed or something. > There was other stuff in the overlays but not Waterfox. > > I'll go download it and give it a whirl. Heck, if it isn't so much of a > memory hog, that will be a bonus. LOL > > Thanks much. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > P. S. May reply again if it works really well, for the benefit of others > who may want to give it a try. ;-) >
Hi Dale, to wetten your appetite...;) Here is an exerpt of the wikepedia page for waterfox: Waterfox differs from Firefox in a number of ways by: Disabling Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) Disabling Web Runtime Removing Adobe DRM Removing Pocket Removing Telemetry Removing data collection Removing startup profiling Allowing running of all 64-bit NPAPI plugins Allowing running of unsigned extensions Removing of Sponsored Tiles on New Tab Page Addition of Duplicate Tab option Addition of locale selector in about:preferences > General Defaulting to Ecosia as the search engine instead of Google or Yahoo![7] Cookie prompt from version 56.0 (beta)[8] (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfox) Cheers Meino