Hello All

I am on Windows 10, trying out Microsoft again my main use is Linux and Waterfox loads up so fast, but I notice in windows 10 it can take between 5 seconds up to 20 seconds.

Maybe it is something I have done in Windows 10 to make it so slow. Has anyone had the same issue

I am using WF6.0.20 on Windows 8.1. Here's my problem, I tried to create a new project in quantconnect (QC) but a message popped up saying I need to enable third party cookie. So I did these:

1. go to Cookies and Site data, add an "Allow" exception for the QC site;

2. go to Enhanced Tracking Protection, add and exception similar to 1;

3. under custom, I deselect cookies & tracking content;

4. I also deselect enhance tracking for the site;

all the above did not work with Waterfox, message keeps popping up. I use other browsers and have no issue at all.

Decided to do a clean install of Fedora 41 and now I have a bit of weirdness with videos on X/Twittter. All video gives a "The media could not be played" message. Just with X. Videos elsewhere (youtube) work fine.

• Firefox - Twitter videos work.
• Floorp - Twitter videos work. Same extensions installed as Waterfox.
• Waterfox - "The media could not be played".
• Waterfox all extensions disabled - "The media could not be played"
• Waterfox private window - "The media could not be played"

I thought it might be a codec but ffmpeg-free is installed and the other firefox variants seem to work OK. Worked fine on Fedora 40 yesterday.

Hello good day, I'm new in ubuntu and all linux related stuff, I just want to install waterfox but downloading it from the page doesn't do anything even If i extract it

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I just downloaded and installed Waterfox 6.5 Linux version. Unfortunately the private window turned purple and I can't get rid of it. It's not just that it's ghastly, I simply can't read the black text on a dark purple background.

The usual browser.theme.dark-private-windows = false does not work. Also I can't get rid of the private logo and extra space it takes away from the actual browser window.

I can’t find it. If I look on https://www.waterfox.net/download/ it’s not listed. The page which announces it https://www.waterfox.net/docs/releases/6.5.0/ provides no link to a download. Where is it?

This has been going on for a while, but it's gotten worse after the last WF browser update (G6.O.20 (64-bit)) - I used to be able to right click on the addon link and choose "save link as" and it would download the xpi file, but today that doesn't even work - my download manager is showing two addons I'm trying to download have 0% progress and time to finish is unknown - IOW I cannot download or install any addons now - why? I had to open another browser, copy the addon links, paste them into the other browser, which downloads them instantly to my preferred download directory, perhaps because it's not Mozilla based and it's not trying to install anything. What I see is "you need Firefox to install this extension", but below that is a link "download file", which works, but then I have to install the xpi file manually.

Anyone have any idea what's going on here? The fact that Waterfox now refuses to even download the xpi file is bizarre - I waited for one to download for 30 mins so I don't believe it's caused by too much traffic on the addons.mozilla.org server. Reason I mentioned that server is a month or two ago before the latest WF update the same sort of thing would happen, but after 5 or so mins the xpi file would finally download - it's almost like there's some kind of hidden firewall rule blocking me from downloading xpi files from that site. I've always had the "block malicious downloads" checked so I can't believe that's the problem.

Sheesh - could it be the S3 Download Manager extension that's causing this? I've tried to cancel both addon downloads but S3 refuses to cancel them - WF is still trying to download them - now I'm really confused! I've used S3 for years and never had it cause a single problem.

Hello to everyone,

I am experiencing constant crashes with Waterfox for more than a month.

It's getting to the point where I cannot use it for over 5 minutes of heavy use (my "heavy use" is traversing through webpages quickly).

I've posted details here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2196126

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

I continue to use only WATERFOX v G 5.1.13 as later versions use WAAAYYYY to much screen for header, Tabs and Toolbar. Now also running Palemoon which has nice compact headers and leaves me decent working space on a 15.5 screen.

i used vertical tab(it is tab tree style collaboration).

i can remove form group with drag and drop,that way seem to be only one.

can i remove tab from context menu like "remove from group"?

i used leechblock extension. but it needed permission. how to fix this problem?

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1avikp3/black_dot_under_the_extension_icon/

Enabling the "always allow" option will fix it, but you need to set it for each site individually.

waterfox version is G6.0.20

Hi. Curious to know your opinion on which browser is the best when it comes to speed and privacy. :) Thanks

Everytime I start writing cloud in the search/address bar the same old result pops up to an old cloud provider I no longer use, and I seem unable to get rid of that.

How on earth do I delete such entries?

Okay so 1st thanks /u/MrAlex94 for getting G6.5 to work for me! Now a few things that seem weird.

1. When I installed G6.5, I got a popup bar(?) (that I didn't take a screenshot of, sorry) that said something like "Looks like you've reinstalled Waterfox. Would you like to refresh Waterfox." or something like that. I just "x" out and went on.
2. When I opened a new tab I got a popup bar(?) asking if I wanted WF to open automatically after I restarted. I'm not sure if that should've happened.
3. Where did the restart option go?
4. Look and Feel has an empty dropdown menu and empty buttons and there are Tab and Nav Bar options at the bottom of the page that should be grouped with the other options above.
5. WF says one of my extensions (Stylus) can't be verified. What does that mean? The more information button goes to a WF 404 page.
6. Light Theme seems really bright. (IDK, this just might be a me thing.)
7. The right side of the Settings page has those clickable topics, but I can't scroll the page up or down if the mouse pointer is in that side of the screen. Even if the pointer's under the topics. That entire area of the screen/page blocks scrolling.

1, 2, and 5 don't/didn't occur in FF 128esr.

Anyway, thanks again for getting WF G6.5 beta working. Everything else seems to working well.

I have been using Waterfox for 1-2 years, I am satisfied to use it as my primary browser but i have some problems.

On waterfox in the computer i put that i use NextDNS, however i would also like waterfox on android not to use Cloudflare by default as DNS since i don't trust Cloudflare being a Honeypot and stealing data. are there any ways to replace DN ?

Cloudflare honeypot etc Source : https://decloudflare.crimeflare.eu.org/#deCloudflare=readme/en.md

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I'm on 6.0.20 any idea why this is happening?

I wanna run Java applets in Waterfox Classic. However, all the tutorials I have found either don't work anymore or hard to follow. If someone can provide a direct download link to it, that'll be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Just heard about the Firefox rce vulnerability, is waterfox impacted by this?

Went to look at some strava segments on a map and was confronted with this message, there has been no problem in the past and firefox displays this and other affected webpages fine

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Hello, I want to find place of extension data storage.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/94ca27acd1ee38322a5106cfb3ea7f6b9d8e557e/src/js/whitelist.js#L179

just saves to editor... can't find storage manipulation, only
https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Agorhill%2FuBlock+storage.local&type=code
https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Agorhill%2FuBlock+storage.sync&type=code

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https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/in-which-file-are-stored-an-add-on-settings-options/26064/2

If it is a WebExtension and it uses storage.local
However, if an extension uses storage.sync, which stores the settings in the cloud, unfortunately you can't have access to it.

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about:support

about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox
There is no
C:\Users\[name]\AppData\Roaming\Waterfox\Profiles\[profile]\storage\default\moz-extension+++[ublock-uuid]

I don't want to rely on sync features.

I updated Waterfox yesterday to G6.0.20 in Windows 10 and, when I have two Waterfox windows open, the displayed page of one or the other will sometimes go white when in the background. (And the preview thumbnail on the taskbar shows white when I hover over the Waterfox icon.) It happens frequently and the background window itself will sometimes flash between the displayed page and white and back. I haven't figured out what behavior on my part reproduces the problem. Is anyone else experiencing this?

[Okay, as I'm writing up this message ... It seems to have something to do with hovering the mouse in one of the windows and scrolling with the mouse wheel (or any user action). Sometimes hovering over the background window brings its displayed page back and sometimes causes the foreground window to go white. Very confusing!]

Here is a screenshot of my main window on the left and, in the background on the right in white, my private browsing window. The second screenshot has the private browsing window in the foreground and displaying its actual web page; and the now-background main window will turn white at times.

Background Waterfox Private Browsing window is all white

Foreground Waterfox Private Browsing window with the actual displayed page

Hi. This might be a rookie question at all but couldn't find info online or in settings. How may I use container tabs and private tabs? Can you give me some quick tips?

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The error msg appears on the left panel when visiting Facebook feeds: https://www.facebook.com/?filter=all&sk=h_chr

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My Waterfox is up to date:

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I finally decided to chat with ebay tonight because the last 4 weeks or so, I can't save anything in my watchlist. Was there an waterfox update 4 weeks ago?

Ebay suggested I sign in to "Edge", I did, and the watchlist works fine, I added 3 items, no problem. Went back to Waterfox, the 3 items were now there BUT I still can't save items, to my watchlist, while on Waterfox.

SO the glitch appears to be on Waterfox's side.

Anyone else have this problem? Have a solution? Already been through all my preferences on ebay, Ebay is working fine.

Waterfox has glitched.

I'm using 6.5 beta 2 and am frequently getting Tab Crash Reporter instead of the link I clicked on and the message "Gah. Your tab just crashed."

Is there any way round this, apart from reverting to the release version of Waterfox? I'm using the beta because it is based on a later ESR which supports some things I need.

I’ve been using waterfox for a couple weeks now and enjoying it. I have been trying vertical tabs and want to get used to them. I just don’t like the big space it fills when doing so.

I was wondering if anyone knew how to autohide the side bar if using vertical tabs?

If you can’t autohide them, can you at least make it so only the icons show and you can expand on hover?

A while ago, I changed the settings of Waterfox so that I could load all tabs at the same time when opening my browser. However, my computer isn't powerful enough to deal with such a high instantenous demand so I went back to the Firefox support page that told me how to change this settings in the first place. The problem is that it doesn't change anything anymore, I'm stuck with a very slow browser every time I open it, does anyone has an idea on how to change that back without having to reset all settings please?