BrowserWorks/waterfox
The official Waterfox 💧 source code repository
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 7 days ago.
Peaked at #13 in the weekly ranking the week of Dec 14, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- A privacy-focused, performance-optimized web browser based on Firefox's open-source codebase.
- Offers enhanced privacy by removing telemetry and tracking while maintaining compatibility with classic and modern extensions.
- Use for browsing the web with minimized data collection and improved user privacy.
- Use for developers needing a customizable browser supporting both legacy and modern extensions.
- Use for cross-platform browsing on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android with regular updates to web standards.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Other
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Community files
- README: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
A privacy-focused, performance-oriented browser based on Firefox.
Waterfox is an open-source, privacy-focused browser based on the popular open source browser with a red panda as a mascot. It is designed to be a drop-in replacement for said browser that offers enhanced privacy features, performance improvements, and customizability while maintaining compatibility with existing extensions.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
437+11
Open issues
325-358
Compared with peers in Web
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| pingdotgg/t3code | 48.4K | +16.6K | 40 | today |
| pbakaus/impeccable | 104.0K | +8.7K | 54 | 10 days ago |
| HunYiSage/dsh-purge | 19.2K | +6.2K | 13 | today |
| Renhuai123/ziwei-doushu | 16.2K | +6.1K | 44 | 21 days ago |
| paperclipai/paperclip | 111.5K | +2.8K | 59 | 13 days ago |
| BrowserWorks/waterfox | 6.3K | — | 60 | 7 days ago |
| Category median | 48.4K | +6.2K | 44 | — |
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