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Almost 10 months of using Waterfox. It's okay, but could be better (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/waterfox@programming.dev
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Almost 10 months ago, I posted in here that I was switching to Waterfox since Mozilla switched from the MPL to their own proprietary license.

After the initial transition, I pretty much used Waterfox like Firefox and there were only a few edge/corner cases where the browser did not function as expected. They were often fixed within a few days via a browser update.

An interesting bug has surfaced where the history database got corrupted and there was no way to repair it and I'm having to recreate my profile. While it's not the end of the world, it very annoying. I haven't been able to isolate why. I wish there was a way to script installing extensions and migrating settings.

Overall, it's doing what a browser should be doing. Showing me the web.

How are you all doing with it?

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[–] 1 point 8 months ago

I like the options to customize it, but there's an issue with the current build's version of Firefox, as some deep-links (that open apps) don't work properly. This causes Obsidian Web Clipper to not work at all. I had actually reported it on the main Firefox bug tracker, and it was later fixed in another build, but Waterfox still haven't upgraded that yet. I switched to IronFox, although there's no option to change the browser theme. I also would like if the address bar button could be customized, since it's different in Waterfox. I'm even considering making a fork of IronFox just to add those, I know there's an existing for that adds OLED theme to it, I could base on it.

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