Both engines use the newest standards, making it easier for others to be used as a base. Mozilla Firefox is a free and open-source web browser made by Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation.įirefox uses the Gecko and SpiderMonkey engine to load web pages. :)Īll that said, I really hope that a newly built userbase of Waterfox won't get into a simialr situation in a couple of years again, when the product they trusted basically kicked them out, in the name of a bit quicker progress.Firefox back in its early beta days in Sept. I said to the main developer back when G4 got released first, that it's a huge mistake. The consequences of that decision were drastic though: Waterfox lost a part of its userbase!Īnd there's no reason now for us to come back, as by now it's known how to re-adjust the regular ESR Firefox to a secure state, disable all the spying and logging by Mozilla, and use something a lot more stable, that doesn't even have various bugs so often introduced (and fixed later), with almost every month's update (as it was with Waterfox in my past experience). Was it that important to actually try to force SSE 4.2 limitation at the time? I don't see what benefit it actually had. Half a year with the SSE 4.2 limited support just to bring the support for 4.1 back, and later reduce the SSE requirements to SSSE 3, basically to the level of the modern Firefox requirements. The reasonable feedback from such people like myself was ignored with a quite questionable explanation at the time. I've been one of the loyal Waterfox users whose CPUs became unsupported once G4 first came around. Oh? My CPU suddenly became supported again earlier this year?ĭue to better understanding of compiler flags, the minimum supported processor version has dropped and is now set at SSSE3 Waterfox G4.1.0 update reduces minimum requirement from SSE 4.2 to SSE 4.1
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