The developer states that " changes between versions so numerous between ESRs making merging difficult if not impossible". Waterfox Classic has many unpatched security advisories. Since 2017 its version remained on Waterfox version 56, for now they use the (Year.Month) format for their versioning scheme. The "Classic" version is actively supported, based both visually and internally on an older version of Gecko, and supports add-ons from XPCOM and XUL. Waterfox Classic is continuing to support the long-standing XUL and XPCOM add-on capability that Firefox removed in version 57.
#Waterfox 38.0 archive
Unsigned extensions and legacy add-ons are allowed from the following sources: Archived Add-ons for Firefox, Legac圜ollector, Thunderbird Firefox Add-on Archive, Classic Add-on Archive Extension, Add-ons for Firefox, Chrome Webstore and Opera Addons Store.Web Runtime is disabled (deprecated as of 2015).
Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) is disabled by default.It is compatible with extensions written for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera.ĭivisions Waterfox Current (G.x.x.x) Features Linux builds are built with Clang on all architectures other than PPC64LE. Waterfox is based on Firefox (and uses Firefox's engine) and is compiled using various compilers and using Intel's Math Kernel Library, Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 and Advanced Vector Extensions.
#Waterfox 38.0 portable
There are official releases for Windows (including a portable version), macOS, Linux and Android in two versions: Classic (Year.Month) and Current (G.x.x.x). It is intended to be ethical and (in Waterfox Classic) maintain support for legacy extensions dropped by Firefox, from which it is forked. Waterfox is an open-source web browser for 圆4, ARM64, and PPC64LE systems.
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