tu...@posteo.de wrote: > 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 >
I played with it for a bit but I can't get the old or new tab utility addon to work. I tried the old one but it fails to start with some error I can't recall. The new tab utility addon only works with the newer Firefox versions. It seems I can win no matter what I try. :/ Dale :-) :-)
