One-sided as usual, the end of the world must be nigh. With the news below, it hasn’t been as extreme thankfully, but it’s still unpleasant seeing people make up conspiracies, rather than keeping a keen eye on things and being rational. Why I kept going throughout the years, I’ll never know. Not only that, but I wasn’t doing anything with Waterfox except developing it and making some money via search. I mean they were rough - it’s so twisted to see how people get online, forgetting that there’s a person who’s putting their heart and soul into something (and it has been just me for almost 9 years). So many outlandish claims, I’m so lucky to have had my parents and friends to help me through the rough times. Accusations, lies and bullying - what for, I’m not quite sure.
Throughout the years - even from when Waterfox first started - I have received abuse for Waterfox. There’s nothing more I can do in that regard, I am only human. Some users seem to have taken news of Waterfox’s funding to spell the end of what Waterfox never was I just hope people keep a level head and try and rationalise things. Harassment and foul words seem to be the normal, as I’ve experienced.Īs far as I’m aware, Waterfox has never been listed anywhere as a privacy tool, and rightly so. I can respect what the community fights for, but I don’t think I can respect how they sometimes fight for it or how they act when they believe they are wronged. Waterfox was here for customisations and speed, with a good level of privacy. Throughout the years people have always asked about Waterfox and privacy, and if they’ve ever wanted more than it can afford, I’ve always pushed them to use Tor. It would just feel like standards that would be impossible to uphold, especially for something such as a web browser on the internet. I never wanted Waterfox to be a part of the hyper-privacy community. People have extrapolated more from Waterfox themselves. That’s for hyper specialised tools such as Tor. I’ve never wanted or tried to have Waterfox appear as a privacy tool or anything more than what it is. Essentially a balance of, “okay here’s some privacy but not too much or the web will be unusable”. Ethics being more of a moral stance, privacy focused on simple changes such as removing telemetry and data collection and try to reduce phone-home without disrupting important cogs in the browser.
#Waterfox review 2021 free#
People should be free to do what they like within their browser. I’ve touted Waterfox as an ethical and privacy friendly browser. Finally, another USP for Waterfox, along with speed (which was becoming a little harder to keep going). I completely understood their decisions in doing so, and decided this would be another area Waterfox would branch into by keeping support. In the meanwhile Mozilla decided to drop support for XPCOM extensions and switch to fully supporting WebExtensions. Customise-abilityĪ few years later, and Waterfox was coasting along as usual. On a positive note though, it got me out in the press (even some big publications such as The Telegraph!) and I even received a reward from The Duke of York for my efforts. Unfortunately it all fell through, but that’s a story for another time. That led down the path I’m sure quite a few will be familiar with. There, I decided to see if I could make a living from Waterfox after I left university - so in my first year I approached the careers department and asked them for help. I kept up with that on and off while at university. From there, I took it upon myself to take it a step further and make Waterfox fast in any way possible - that was my introduction to toolchains and masochism (Intel’s C++ compiler… what more can I say). Waterfox amassed a large following because it was easy access to a 64-Bit build of Firefox. From there, I decided to share my exploits over at.
#Waterfox review 2021 how to#
Well written, easy to follow and (from what I remember) not many missing pieces as to how to do things.
#Waterfox review 2021 software#
It was a way for me to understand how large software projects worked and the Mozilla documentation was a great introduction. Waterfox now has funding and a development team, so Waterfox can finally start to grow! A Little Bit of Background The Beginning
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