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Waterfox will include Brave’s adblock engine, & allow search ads on by default for revenue (cyberinsider.com)

submitted 5 months ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

genuine question, why were people using waterfox instead of ironfox? like what out-of-the-box features drew them in?

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[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

waterfox is way older, one of the first "successful" forks of firefox, and it's not android exclusive, so people who for one reason or the other wanted a gecko alternative used this

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[–] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 1 point 5 months ago

wow it is really old no kidding, that makes sense. I meant to say Librewolf/Ironfox

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