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Is this related to Firefox? The name suggests it, but the page doesn't say

Its big thing originally was being a 64-bit port of Firefox. I assume it's still based on Firefox in some way, based on the name, but not really sure what it brings to the table anymore, besides some minor stuff you can already get with extensions.

Its thing nowadays is being a fork of a Firefox release old enough to still support XUL. Which means it's effectively a 4+ year old version of Firefox, with no renderer isolation and no support for most web features added in the last four years.

> effectively a 4+ year old version of Firefox, with no renderer isolation and no support for most web features added in the last four years

Okay, hilarious. “Impressive that they’re keeping it up to date while maintaining XUL support”, I thought. Never mind.

> besides some minor stuff you can already get with extensions

Waterfox supports extensions that are no longer supported by Firefox.

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