Waterfox New Version Download
Henrey Manzer
A little bit to unpack here for the initial launch, but nothing too bad. On my first launch since last installing this browser, Waterfox took me to its patch notes hosted on its website waterfox.net - so this is not really a background connection.
On each start up, Waterfox does a DNSquery for aus.waterfox.net. This is Waterfox's automatic update service, which you can't totally disable. At most, you can tell Waterfox not to automatically install updates. but it will still check for updates anyway.
Other than the few CDN connections - of which some are tied to connection to waterfox.net and mozilla.org - Waterfox doesn't seem to phone home a lot. This is a good thing, especially when you compare it other browsers that constantly phone home.
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.
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.
I would like to use Waterfox. I am a total GUI guy and have never successfully extracted and moved a program in Linux. I have read many generic tutorials, but none work. Right now I am using a Waterfox appimage, but it is three years old. Also opensussie is no longer supporting either the Waterfox repository or appimage. which is from 2018. When I extract the latest waterfox-G4.0.2.1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 file there is no readme or config file:
Where is your waterfox-kit? What kind of kit (.tar.gz or .deb)
The current waterfox-kit is on: =home%3Ahawkeye116477%3Awaterfox&package=waterfox-classic-kpe
If you are on Ubuntu, try Ubuntu and then grab binary package.
Check for right version and download. It is the .deb-file
Start caja from menu or from terminal. Go to your download directory.
Right click on the downloaded .deb-file and try gdebi installation program. This install waterfox-classic to standard.
Try: $ sudo apt list water*
It should look like "waterfox-classic-kpe/now 2021.11-0+77.1 amd64 [Installiert,lokal]"
If that work, try removing waterfox from /opt and remove waterfox-tar directory from wherever you have unpacked it.
Newer versions (updates) will be found on the used link.
If update is available, download the .deb file and installed as done before. It will update the running version and is ready after restart waterfox. Waterfox is not update by the system, you have to check for updates from time to time. I don't know if and when waterfox will find it's way to the ubuntu-repositories.
Forgot the hassle with tarball installation.
Hope this helps
I was using waterfox current, and an update turned into a mess since
the update installed G3.0.1 which doesn't work properly (on a couple
of pups and fatdog). I now use the classic version which works well
on fossa64 and bio64 (latest versions) but not on fatdog 811.
All you have to do if you want to try my waterfox docker image is copy and paste the above into a file called Dockerfile.
Then assuming you have docker installed, you do (caution this will lead to about 1.4Gb of downloads)
Another option to replace Firefox is Waterfox, its in the AUR. I use waterfox-current-bin to cut down on the compile time. I was having crashing issues with firefox some time ago and switched. So far no problems and I cant tell the difference other than the name. One advantage is it is better at using the system theme.
Tried waterfox, it works, but it messed up my firefox sync by resetting my themes and containers and its based on the LTS release of firefox instead of the latest one.
I just want firefox to work, is that too much to ask from one of the most popular distros?