Ο browser Waterfox αποτελεί μία εφαρμογή του προγραμματιστή Alex Kontos και αισίως έφτασε στην έκδοση 56.2.0 στις 16 Μαϊου 2018. Η νέα έκδοση του προγράμματος περιήγησης που βασίζεται σε μεγάλο βαθμό στον κώδικα του Firefox και περιλαμβάνει ενημερώσεις ασφαλείας, βελτιώσεις απόδοσης και ορισμένες άλλες αλλαγές.
The new version of Waterfox browser is available through the system automaticof updating the browser itself, but also as downloaded to the official site and it is of course free and open source. It initially only supports English language, but you can add the Greek language of Firefox, without any problem.
Waterfox 56.2.0 includes the latest Mozilla security releases for the Firefox web browser. Includes updates listed on 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 selection privacy.resistFingerprinting as "true" will notice that Waterfox is disguised as Firefox 60, while if it is set as "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
