Almost 10 months ago, I posted in here that I was switching to Waterfox since Mozilla switched from the MPL to their own proprietary license.
After the initial transition, I pretty much used Waterfox like Firefox and there were only a few edge/corner cases where the browser did not function as expected. They were often fixed within a few days via a browser update.
An interesting bug has surfaced where the history database got corrupted and there was no way to repair it and I’m having to recreate my profile. While it’s not the end of the world, it very annoying. I haven’t been able to isolate why. I wish there was a way to script installing extensions and migrating settings.
Overall, it’s doing what a browser should be doing. Showing me the web.
How are you all doing with it?
I like it, it’s exactly what I wanted. Like you said, just “showing me the web.” I might try one of the other forks with a more experimental UI at some point, but for now, I’m happy with a pretty vanilla browser. For me, Waterfox is basically the same as Firefox, except I don’t have to disable some new AI feature every time Mozilla adds one.
I don’t use many browser plugins. Just these:
and they work with no problems. I did have to stop using Video Download Helper and KeepassXC, but that’s not because of Waterfox, it’s because I’m using Waterfox as a flatpak. I’m going back and forth on whether I like having my browser be a flatpak. Not being able to use Video Download Helper or the KeepassXC plugin is definitely a downside. I still open Firefox (non flatpak) occasionally because of that.
Oh, and I love that syncs your open tabs between desktop and mobile. The other Firefox forks don’t seem to have that.