On 03/30 10:36, Dale wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> > On 03/30 09:45, Dale wrote:
> >> [email protected] 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
