Getting acquainted with Waterfox 56.2.0

Waterfox browser is an application by developer Alex Kontos and hopefully reached version 56.2.0 on May 16, 2018. The new version of the browser which is heavily based on the Firefox code and includes security, performance improvements and some other changes.

The new version of Waterfox browser is available through the system ς s of the browser itself, but also as downloaded to the official site and of course it is και ανοικτού κώδικα. Υποστηρίζει αρχικά μόνο την Αγγλική γλώσσα, όμως μπορείτε να προσθέσετε την Ελληνική γλώσσα του Firefox, χωρίς κανένα πρόβλημα.

Waterfox 56.2.0 includes the latest security patches released by Mozilla for the Firefox web browser. Includes updates listed in MFSA 2018-10 and MFSA 2018-11. You can see him Mozilla Security Advice Website for information about individual patches.

The new version of Waterfox includes a large number of changes. Users who have set the privacy.resistFingerprinting option to "true" will notice that Waterfox disguises itself as Firefox 60, and if it is set to "false" then it looks like Firefox 56.

Also those users who have noticed high CPU usage in Waterfox should see improvement. Alex Kontos (obviously of Greek descent) notes that the issue of "high CPU usage" is a thing of the past.

Waterfox 56.2.0 also includes Stylo but is disabled by default. Kontos plans to add to Firefox the Firefox 57 WebExtensions API and integrate the classic add-on directory to about: addons

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