I don't get the appeal of Waterfox. In my experience Intels C++ compiler isn't that good outside of SIMD, with inferior code generation to both GCC and Clang. What compiler are they benchmarking against on their homepage?
I don't either, but I looked at their home page, and am not really inclined to trust performance claims of someone that uses a graph like the one under "General Benchmarks: Higher is Better" which uses a nice smooth curve to demonstrate... nothing, since the different data points are unrelated.
Yes I agree, his benchmarks seem like mostly fluff to me.
I'm not sure, but I used to run the Nightly build on all of my Windows machines in order to use 64-bit Firefox and anecdotally Waterfox does "feel" quite a bit faster. I definitely notice fewer pauses.