Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and addons no longer supported question

[tuxic@posteo.de]

On 03/30 10:36, Dale wrote:
> tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
> > On 03/30 09:45, Dale wrote:
> >> tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>  
> >>>  I switched to waterfox for privacy reasons and it supports the older
> >>>  plugin system.
> >>>  No need to stay to older version (keeping older bugs, which may
> >>>  affect seurity) ...
> >>>
> >>>  Waterfox is opensourced and it has a smaller memory footprint.
> >>>
> >>>  https://www.waterfoxproject.org/en-US/
> >>>
> >>>  No advertising intended...I am only an user.
> >>>
> >>>  Cheers!
> >>>  Meino
> >>>
> >> I ran up on a site where that was talked about.  It's not in the tree
> >> tho.  How did you install it?  Is it just download and run it from
> >> command line or a manual addition to the menu system?  Is there a
> >> overlay with it in it?  While I like Firefox, the memory hog that it
> >> sometimes is, I'm not opposed to switching to something else. 
> >>
> >> Thanks for the info. 
> >>
> >> Dale
> >>
> >> :-)  :-) 
> >>
> > Hi Dale,
> >
> > I downloaded the archive, unpacked it in a separate directory, moved
> > that to /usr/local/., made a symlink from /usr/local/bin/waterfox to
> > the executable in that directory and: DONE :)
> >
> > Ok...I did an entry inti menu.xml of my openbox...manually ;)
> >
> > Since waterfox is contained in a single directory, gentoo will not be
> > "polluted" and the removal/upgrade of waterfox is easy.
> >
> > It is not the original genuine sacred of Gentoo, though. ;)
> >
> > Cheers!
> > Meino
> >
> 
> Cool.  I was peeking into overlays and was having no luck at all.  I
> thought I found it twice but it seems they were removed or something. 
> There was other stuff in the overlays but not Waterfox. 
> 
> I'll go download it and give it a whirl.  Heck, if it isn't so much of a
> memory hog, that will be a bonus.  LOL 
> 
> Thanks much. 
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-) 
> 
> P. S. May reply again if it works really well, for the benefit of others
> who may want to give it a try.  ;-) 
> 

Hi Dale,


to wetten your appetite...;)
Here is an exerpt of the wikepedia page for waterfox:

Waterfox differs from Firefox in a number of ways by:
    Disabling Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)
    Disabling Web Runtime
    Removing Adobe DRM
    Removing Pocket
    Removing Telemetry
    Removing data collection
    Removing startup profiling
    Allowing running of all 64-bit NPAPI plugins
    Allowing running of unsigned extensions
    Removing of Sponsored Tiles on New Tab Page
    Addition of Duplicate Tab option
    Addition of locale selector in about:preferences > General
    Defaulting to Ecosia as the search engine instead of Google or Yahoo![7]
    Cookie prompt from version 56.0 (beta)[8]

(see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfox)

Cheers
Meino