Waterfox 27.0.2 update#
Waterfox 27.0.2 full#
Waterfox 27.0.2 windows 10#

Everything started up and works wonderfully! I also run with Sync enabled to my OwnCloud Weave server and appreciate my Firefox config being used. This is not a conclusive measure/test, but my experience so far is the added performance improvement makes this older laptop compatible with today's applications!

Waterfox 27.0.2 full#

In Waterfox full screen the display is fluid and CPU1 ~90%, CPU2 ~70%. In Firefox Adobe Flash running full screen would skip and stutter along with both CPU's 100%. Sometimes I watch the news live at 5pm PST Watching the following link in Firefox would achieve about 3 FPS. I run a slightly older HP Laptop DV9823CL, AMD Turion X2 Mobile with NVIDIA GeForce 7150m / nForce 630m running Vista 圆4. Thought I'd share a couple 'loose' benchmarks after installing Waterfox 27.0.2. Locale selector in about references > General (further improved by PandaCodex).Addition of Duplicate Tab option (toggle with, thanks to PandaCodex).Removal of Sponsored Tiles on New Tab Page.Allow running of unsigned extensions and full add-ons.Allow running of all 64-Bit NPAPI plugins.Software designed for 64-bit Windows editions can take advantage of faster RAM and processing speeds and greater stability in 64-bit systems. Waterfox is modified version of the Firefox source code specifically for machines running 64-bit versions of Windows. Disabled Web Runtime (deprecated as of 2015) Waterfox 27.0.2 is a 64-bit version of Firefox.Disabled Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) by default.

What features does Waterfox currently have?

A better Android release as it's currently in poor form.

The staging website is available to test at, but still contains various Mozilla-isms.

A few listed add-ons that won't currently work: Compatibility with older add-ons is being brought back in the next few releases.

Enabled e10s by default, some add-ons that aren't marked as compatible may cause unexpected behaviour.Ĭookie Prompt has been re-implemented thanks to Savarese.Orgįix *BSD compilation white space issues (Pull request #284 and #289)ĭon't worry.

Fixed GUI rendering issues on macOS High Sierra.

In the meanwhile, a 'new' browser will be developed to follow the ethos of Waterfox of customisation and choice, while staying up to do date with the rapidly evolving browser landscape. Waterfox will now remain at 56 for the time being, following the security releases of 59 ESR until it becomes End of Line (Q1 2019).

Added Privacy Policy and Legal to website to be more professional.

Security patches from newer 57 releases.

Updated Windows installer to show the MPL 2.0 and fixed executable description and icon.

Disabled e10s on older OS X builds to prevent tab crashing.

Fix of various white space issues thanks to jbeich.

Fix default browser check (Thanks to jdunn0).

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory Patches:.

Waterfox 27.0.2 windows 10#

Updated libcubeb library to prevent audio issues on new Windows 10 builds, Bug 1426719.

Warning: This may cause the add-on or the browser to behave unexpectedly.

If you'd like to force enable e10s, you can by setting -enable to true in about:config.

e10s will now be disabled when using add-ons that aren't marked explicitly as compatible with e10s.

Waterfox 27.0.2 update#

If you use a different than default location for Firefox, you should be able to just update the profile.ini in the new Waterfox profile location to carry on using that location.