The current versioning scheme is completely independent from Firefox, and has “slowed down” considerably compared to the rapid release versioning scheme that Mozilla and Google currently use. If it is neither, then I still wish you the greatest year ever in 2015, 🙂įair enough– but don’t you think it’s a bit misleading? How would the average Joe know that version 25 is on par with the current Firefox version?įor clarification for our readers, I’ve included an excerpt from that Post: If it is the latter, then, “Belated Happy New Year!” If it is the former, then, “Happy New Year!” I’m hoping this will be either the last post of 2014, or the first post in 2015. Well, to those nay-Sayers out there, if the placebo works, use it.
Some may claim that it’s merely a placebo effect– that I want it to be faster and it therefore seems faster. It’s definitely faster based on the strict standards imposed by the Milk-Toast Tests, and that’s good enough for me. I think I’ll be sticking with WaterFox for the time being. I hope one of you kind readers can enlighten me. Incidentally, there is 16GB of RAM installed in this machine, so that’s not an issue. Why would the Maximum storage size still be 32MB? Why would there be a 32MB cap? When I check the WaterFox Memory Cache, it looks like this: In 64-bit Waterfox, I have the memory cache set to 65,536 KB (64 meg). I have the memory cache set to 32,768 KB (32 meg) In my 32-bit Firefox settings, I have the disk cache disabled Perhaps they’ve fixed this terrible issue since I last tried it? Now, I Have a Question For You It never presented itself and my FireFox installation remains intact. Update: For the purposes of this article I uninstalled WaterFox so I could show you the nasty little check box. Sure, you can re-install the add-ons, but the bookmarks? Forget it. If you uninstall WaterFox, and miss the tiny check box that says something about “deleting the data files”, so too will your Firefox profiles be deleted!Ī nightmare for those of us that have many hundreds of bookmarks and happen to love all our add-ons. It’s not only convenient but is also a treacherous situation if you decide to uninstall WaterFox.
Waterfox 64 bits install#
This should be pretty obvious since you didn’t have to install any add-ons, or update all your bookmarks. WaterFox, by design, uses your FireFox profiles. Just not as easy anymore.There are some important caveats to consider if you decide to uninstall WaterFox. Firefox is still very much the most customizable browser in the market. There's still userChrome.css for modifying visuals.įor now I'm just gathering various userChrome.css, userContent.css, userChromeJS, and mozilla.cfg tweaks to prepare. There's Tampermonkey and ViolentMonkey to replace Greasemonkey and at least I know theres Stylus to replace Stylish except for modifying browser appearance.
If I can get at least get a cookie manager addon, flashgot, and improvements on usability with the noscript webext then I might consider finally upgrading. I know they're gonna keep trying to improve the web extension API's to increase customization. I'm gonna stay with FF56 and probably migrate to Waterfox until Firefox 57+ onward has more suitable replacements for my old addons. Work on a downthemall web ext is in the works Īs much as I like Firefox 57, I like my addons better. Webfork wrote:Still, I *need* DownThemAll so I'll test it sometime soon.
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