[Waterfox Download For Mac
Rancul Ratha
I have downloaded "waterfox-G4.0.6.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2" to my usual Downloads directory on a laptop that was running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. That machine has been upgraded with Ubuntu 20.04 and then 22.04. So I still want to install the Waterfox G4.0.6 -- the package has not changed at all in the day or so it took me to make Ubuntu reasonably current.
I guess what puzzles me most is how a "package" can be just about anything according to some of the answers to similar questions (on this site) about installing Waterfox or other software all wrapped up as a .tar.bz2 file or something similar.
Recently I plug in a HDMI cable but after that, the sound of waterfox doesn't work anymore with pulseaudio, before that everything worked fine. The only way I found to play sound is disabling the card on pavucontrol and the sound is so ugly (lag and noise). I don't know what is happening here.
I'm using the latest version of waterfox from aur (waterfox-bin).
This only happens with waterfox because firefox and vlc works fine.
And I'm using the default config files of pulseaudio.
It looks like the bin version doesn't have pulse support compiled in, you will have to make it use the ALSA -> pulse redirection and install pulseaudio-alsa in order to set up an /etc/asound.conf to that effect.
I am not using a HDMI cable for sound output myself, but this suggests that - depending on your graphics stack - it might not be quite as straight-forward as one would assume. I suggest the following.
1. Consult the linked wiki entry, if you haven't already; see if the situation applies to you (and if so, try the suggested solution).
2. If sound worked before, identify the point in time where things started turning sour and post the corresponding entries of your pacman log.
No it technically should already have pulse support, but maybe something went wrong on their buildbot, or there is some strange config on your system. Are you starting waterfox in a startup script somewhere that might run before pulse has started? What are the outputs of
Here is the solution that worked for me:
First delete the directory pulse in $HOME/.config/, after that remove pulseaudio and alsa-lib without their dependencies, then kill the pulseaudio daemon and unload all the modules or reboot, deny waterfox to read and write /dev/snd (I used apparmor), then install pulseaudio and alsa-lib and finally start pulseaudio.
I would like to add like an observation that waterfox try to use /dev/snd after I unplug the HDMI cable and I don't know why; and without the step of deny waterfox to write and read /dev/snd, the behavior of using directly the card keeps going.
The Waterfox builds from the Linux repos run by Hawkeye/Venghan (also one of the mods in the Waterfox Reddit channel) also contain the OpenSUSE patches to integrate well with KDE Plasma. Mozilla refuses to fix this, for reasons known only to themselves, but Waterfox from Hawkeye has it covered.
I use waterfox and also have firefox. When a security vulnerability is discovered, i notice firefox releases an update rather quickly, while waterfox takes much longer to update. I assume security vulnerabilities that affect firefox, affect waterfox, is it safe to use waterfox during that time until it releases a patch version that firefox already released?
G6.0.10 is out now. This fails using yay. I was able to work around the failure by cloning the aur repo manually and got updated to G6.0.09. Again, G6.0.10 is out, so this needs updated. (I'm using waterfox-bin but this issue applies to waterfox also).
Please note that the build takes about 3 hours on my machine, and at two points of the build process (the two times libxul.so is linked) it fills my RAM and starts swapping. You might want to use the waterfox-current-bin package instead.
As from title, on the pc I have window 11 and fedora on two other pcs, currently I use Firefox on all three, but lately reading the forum of GrapheneOS, some recommend Brave, instead on other forums some recommend "waterfox or librewolf" which are versions of firefox cleaned and attentive to privacy. I ask for some technical advice to those who are more experienced.
What is the best browser attentive to privacy and security?
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Assuming that by saying privacy, you mean "not being tracked and identified uniquely", then you should know there are two elements to this and both are really important. The fingerprint and the IP. To have privacy you have to eliminate both vectors. One alone is not enough. The fingerprint is technically more important, but still the IP is an extreme isolator. So, both essentially have to be addressed or the effort is mostly futile.
Secondly, know that one browser is generally not enough. No matter which privacy browser you use you will eventually run into that website that just doesn't wanna work with privacy features enabled. Detecting what to turn off can be tricky, time consuming, and sometimes futile. Long story short, to have less headache you always need an extra vanilla browser at hand just in case.
Tor i dont recommend for general use for the average person cuz you can run into compatibility issues often and just doesnt work for all uses. However it does address the IP issue by default without the need for a vpn. Brave is more compatible and "comfortable" with websites than the other three but its really not as good against fingerprinting. And again you still need a totally vanilla one cuz even with brave I have run into problems.
So i personally stick to Mullvad as my primary private browser (for a multitude of reasons), Brave as an intermediary, and vanilla Firefox as my vanilla (though you could pick whatever you want). With a vpn. Each have their use case, and together they offer what you need.
On a PC I use Mullvad Browser (Tor browser without Tor Network) for general browsing and temporary logged accounts (when I have to log into a legacy big tech account then log out), FF for logged accounts & stuff that rely on cookies (libreddit & new pipe) and Brave just as a backup.
Brave ils nothing but Chrome, as most browsers are now, except Safari and Firefox. This quasi monopoly of Google's web engine is threatening us all, and google is pushing hard to break the web as we know it. See -api-open-web-adblocking.html for example. So I would say go for Firefox or a derivative.
alci But no one gives enough attention to Firefox, and also Mozilla Corporation (subsidary of Mozilla Foundation) kicked out its 250 employees just to give more salary to its CEO. Also do note that Chrome is proprietary freeware software, but Chromium is not. We really need a new non-profit org creating a new browser to stop the monopoly of Chromium.
Hardened Brave as primary and Mullvad as secondary. Primary reason is speed. Brave is fast, and I like how they handle fingerprints by randomizing your fingerprint for each website you visit. Go back to a website - different fingerprint.
That's easier said than done. As numerous people have pointed out in various places across the web, browsers are complex and difficult to operate/maintain. A big(?) part of the reason that Firefox is even still around is because of the funding they receive from Google.
Also, scummy behaviour from the CEO aside, its not fair to the employees to act like there isn't a decent amount of work still being done on Firefox or that it isn't a suitable (not necessarily the best) browser to use. As far as I'm concerned, I'll stick to the fact that Firefox is good enough for Tor / Mullvad (lets not forget these are FF-based) so its fine for me. Arkenfox / Librewolf are also options for people wanting Better Firefox(TM).
Its not. Firefox lacks many security features, as described here. Tor browser literally uses the Extended Support releases of Firefox, and misses all Medium / Low vulnurebilities, You can read more here.
They're using it. So yes it is. I think you failed to realise I said "good enough". Don't really see why you're acting like I said FF is perfect (quite the opposite since I actually said its not the best).
Point still remains it IS " good enough" for them to use, and people here need to stop having some hyper idealistic notion that a non profit org can somehow create a Super Good Browser(TM) that can compete with a browser from a for-profit Big Tech company. Especially when most of the other "alternatives" are from other Big Tech companies who don't even really bother to make their own genuinely separate browser, and just use Chromium anyway. Only one Big Tech company does bother and thats obviously Apple with Safari (and its not like they're really good / trustworthy either).
But by all means, keep up your bizarre fantasy pipe dream. If an alternative somehow comes along that is genuinely better than FF, then I'm happy to use them (especially if Tor / Mullvad switch to them as well). Until then, I'm happy to keep using (desktop) Firefox.
Dumdum people here need to stop having some hyper idealistic notion that a non profit org can somehow create a Super Good Browser(TM) that can compete with a browser from a for-profit Big Tech company.
Firefox was so useful but on win7 64 it kept freezing, locking and sometimes i was unable to edit field within it??!! tried waterfox and its so much faster and more stable. This should be offered as default for 64bit systems
Just installed this today and so far I am very happy with it. It is noticeably faster than Chrome and Firefox when comparing the same web pages. Have not tried any plugins yet. Also have not had any issue with it yet.
For the quest 'A Wounded Waterfox', talk to the bear Park Ranger Viktar (he's holding a shovel and pretty stressed out). Go through his speech prompts until he tells you about the waterfoxes and their cave (not more than a hundred paces from him). There is no direct trail there from the main path but walking behind him, you will find a dirt path quickly and that will bring you to the cave. If you already have found Fooxitar Eggs, you'll be able to finish the quest. If not, keep exploring the woods until you do, then return to the cave. You will see the injured Waterfox to the left, which you cannot interact with, and the trap is to the right. You can interact with the trap, leaving an egg inside for bait. Once you've baited the trap, back up and wait for the waterfox to enter it. Viktar will come to the cave and you can go through several speech prompts with him and after this, he will not have more speech prompts for you until after approaching Nava for the first time. Once you approach Nava, you can return to Viktar and ask him for a letter of recommendation.
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