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what about Firefox's forks such as Waterfox[1], Pale Moon[2], IceCat[3], SeaMonkey[4]...? Genuinely asking. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfox https://
by c80e74f077 5y ago
what about Firefox's forks such as Waterfox[1], Pale Moon[2], IceCat[3], SeaMonkey[4]...? Genuinely asking.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfox
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Moon_(web_browser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Moon_(web_browser)
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMonkey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMonkey
- revolvingocelot 5y agoWaterfox is owned by an ad company, which IMO is enough to disqualify it. Sure it's probably fine now, but it'll assuredly have problems soon.
- uniqueid 5y agoOf the four, I've only ever heard of SeaMonkey before. I'll definitely check them out though.
- thayne 5y agoNone of these projects have enough resources to keep up with web standards, and patch security bugs on their own. So forks are either almost the same as Firefox, or may be less secure and/or doesn't work for as many websites and addons as Firefox.