![]() ![]() To answer your question, two major differences:Ģ. But really, push comes to shove, they can just disappear into the aether. Above all else, Waterfox has been around for 12 years now.ĭon't get me wrong, things like EV code signing certs are a bit of a racket, and yeah you can jump in and code audit all those other forks too.This also goes hand in hand with the code signing. The other projects, who are you really going to hold accountable if things go wrong? To me this is super important because a browser is used for sensitive information. GDPR, CCPA, the rest are things that actually need to be followed. Laws must be abided and the end user actually has an entity to hold accountable. That used to be Waterfox Limited, then it was System1 and now BrowserWorks (the entity I control). There is (and has been since 2012) a legal entity behind Waterfox. The most important one that I believe, maybe apart from Pale Moon, only Waterfox does, is offers accountability.There are 3rd party tools out there, but IMHO that brings in its own set of problems, and breaks the chain-of-trust. Librewolf does not provide auto-updates.Checksum's are all well and good, but IMO, not enough. ![]() Waterfox provides signed binaries for download.Now, ignoring feature differences between all the forks out there, I'd like to present a different perspective and consideration that I think gets overlooked when comparing forks like Waterfox to other forks (if I am incorrect regarding Librewolf, someone please correct me). This is a day before Mozilla, but mostly because Mozilla spend a day or two doing QA. I've made sure security updates have now been available ASAP for quite a while now. ![]()
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