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Waterfox, does it really make a difference?

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Between the general slowness, lack of any meaningful updates and the crash that just experienced that wiped out my three dozen open tabs, I am sick and tired of Mozilla and Firefox in its current state. Perhaps Firefox will get better one day but I am not going to wait for that day using it. Does Waterfox really make a difference what with the 64bitness of t all like they claim? Should I switch to that?

 

Don't recommend me Chrome. I would rather use IE than Chrome.

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I would. With 4GB, it's a start, but it still hogs ram like vcrazy.

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I would. With 4GB, it's a start, but it still hogs ram like vcrazy.

 

Got 16.

 

 

I wouldn't really think that it makes a difference unless you're a tab whore (which I'm not, that's why I use Chrome).

 

I do open a lot of tabs.

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I've replaced firefox with waterfox. Being a tab whore as WinNut put it, it makes a huge difference and it is generally a lot more stable than firefox. I've not had waterfox crash on me in the last few months of using it and I usually have about 300 tabs open in tab groups.

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Got 16.

 

 

 

I do open a lot of tabs.

I think it's worth a shot.

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Not really. I'm a tab whore, and plain old Firefox is fine for me.

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I think it's worth a shot.

 

Hey, I just installed it and it even got my profile without me having to do anything. How nice of them. I'll give it a shot. I'll see how Firefox is doing after it gets 2-3 updates.

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I've replaced firefox with waterfox. Being a tab whore as WinNut put it, it makes a huge difference and it is generally a lot more stable than firefox. I've not had waterfox crash on me in the last few months of using it and I usually have about 300 tabs open in tab groups.

 

Sorry to thread hijack, but I too am getting fed up with Firefox's instability. Does Waterfox do as good a job with searching in the URL bar? For example, I could close the tab opened on this thread, but then start typing in a key word from this thread's title to search for it again. (I'm probably describing this poorly...)

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Hey, I just installed it and it even got my profile without me having to do anything. How nice of them. I'll give it a shot. I'll see how Firefox is doing after it gets 2-3 updates.

Wait, it already got your profile? Oh yeah, because it's basically a lighter version of Firefox.

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this is probably the only place i'll hang out anymore: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/274320-the-long-awaited-car-thread/

 

Current Rig: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, Abit IN9-32MAX nForce 680i board, Galaxy GT610 1GB DDR3 gpu, Cooler Master Mystique 632S Full ATX case, 1 2TB Seagate Barracuda SATA and 1x200gb Maxtor SATA drives, 1 LG SATA DVD drive, Windows 10. All currently runs like shit :D 

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Sorry to thread hijack, but I too am getting fed up with Firefox's instability. Does Waterfox do as good a job with searching in the URL bar? For example, I could close the tab opened on this thread, but then start typing in a key word from this thread's title to search for it again. (I'm probably describing this poorly...)

 

 it's basically a lighter version of Firefox.

 

As he said, it's the same function-wise. It's only different underneath. However Firefox does it, this one does it.

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I got a question now. Can I install 64-bit Flash to Waterfox?

 

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I got a question now. Can I install 64-bit Flash to Waterfox?

 

@terrytek

Yes.

"If it has tits or tires, at some point you will have problems with it." -@vinyldash303

this is probably the only place i'll hang out anymore: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/274320-the-long-awaited-car-thread/

 

Current Rig: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, Abit IN9-32MAX nForce 680i board, Galaxy GT610 1GB DDR3 gpu, Cooler Master Mystique 632S Full ATX case, 1 2TB Seagate Barracuda SATA and 1x200gb Maxtor SATA drives, 1 LG SATA DVD drive, Windows 10. All currently runs like shit :D 

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