Kiwi refugee looking for a new browser in light of its discontinuation, and I notice whenever I click a link to X from other apps, it opens in the browser despite me setting "open in apps" to "always". Any fix for this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/waterfox/comments/1ffwndj/what_settings_to_use_website_not_showing_reject/

Made that thread a while back. Just installed again. Maybe it was the version number. But no. I took away all protections, the shield etc. and the same problem occurs.

In short. In the usual browsers, even in brave, when i go to google or some other website for the first time it shows me the reject all or accept all button. Waterfox for some reason always seems to accept (or something) no matter what. That what it looks like to me. A website clearly either had the window removed or the button pressed.

But something is going on and i cannot remove this. Brave allowed me to switch the shield off and that autoaccept or reject disappeared, i have no idea what waterfox is doing there. I would sure like some closure on the subject.

Thanks.

edit: LOL self soved about 10 min in i found this thread https://www.reddit.com/r/waterfox/comments/16yww1a/waterfox_now_needlessly_gives_explicit_consent/?rdt=44721

so in about:config set cookiebanners.service.mode and the private mode one from 2 to 0. it should be the firefox default. setting it to 2 seems silly. because some sites had a 2 step reject mode and it automatically accepted the cookies. instead of rejecting.

letting the thread stay in case someone had the same problem

I'm running into issues where sites that use browser challenges (like Cloudflare protected sites - example: WineHQ.com) give me a "Your browser is out of date. Update your browser to view this site properly" error page.

...which doesn't make a lot of sense, because I'm using a really recent release and everything is properly updated.

I've run into this before and I could swear I found a fix posted somewhere, but I don't remember where or what it was.

(Potential complicating factors: I'm on Speedify as a software-bonding VPN and I use a PiHole for local DNS filtering, but they've both been in place for a while and this is a much more recent thing)

every add-on install from Firefox looks disabled, i want to known how to enable the button

https://preview.redd.it/8mmhcwly9rfe1.png?width=829&format=png&auto=webp&s=fad4251b8d9acff0a313277d763a07bc5a89fda4

the add-on page in chrome gives errors too

All of the "Waterfox Support" and Learn more links in the about:preferences page seem to direct to waterfox.net/support/, which doesn't exist (should probably be waterfox.net/docs/support).

I just downloaded an android version that says it's a waterfox android when i got to the help menu it took me to the waterfox website but it has 404 error so i wanted to know if it was real or just a fake browser tried to take screenshots inside it but it says that I'm unable to use screenshots due to app restrictions, is it legit or am i getting scammed?

How do I enable Waterfox side tabs after installing tree style tab extension? It gave a prompt the first time but now can't find a way to do it.

Waterfox version 6.5.3

Hi all. Because of 0patch I would like to install Win 7 Ultimate on one of my builds. I am looking for a stable, Firefox-based browser and was happy to find that Waterfox, which is supposed to work on Win7, according to the website. I spun up a VirtualBox VM of Win7 Ultimate and tried to install the latest version of Waterfox, but the install failed with a message that it needed Win10 in order to install. Is there a workaround, or must I use the Waterfox Classic which seems to be from 2022? Any feedback appreciated. Thanks!

Hey guys basically the title.

After a month or so of browser research and digging I finally ditched brave (only because it was chromium) and moved onto waterfox.

I was mostly worried about moving onto a gecko fork since I had heard quite a bit about them using up too much memory and being slow, but honestly this browser is a million times faster than orion. It is also lightning fast with three extensions (UBO, Untrap for youtube and Dearrow) installed.

I am so glad I gave it a shot, however I do have one question of which I am curious, is the Oblivious DNS that the browser ships with a good DNS, so far I have had no problems but should I change it to Mullvad DNS per Chance???

I have a bunch of extensions that I regularly use by clicking on them, and every time I want to click on one, I need to open the extensions overflow dropdown to show my extensions. I noticed theres an option that lets me pin them to the toolbar, but it seemingly does nothing. Why is this the case? Here are some screenshots of what i mean, and for some reason, the extensions are visible in the customizer, but not anywhere else:

https://preview.redd.it/u3swufv0ydbe1.png?width=646&format=png&auto=webp&s=db7bb35d5c890b908e77de2441328373f7c69d8d

Why are they visible here?

Hi In Firefox I can swipe back and forward with two fingers on the TouchPad on my Thinkpad P15s on Fedora 41. I can't do that in Waterfox. Any way to enable it?

Anyone else having issues with Waterfox saying either "place your finger on the security key" (macOS with TouchID) and nothing happening, or just flat out saying "there was an issue, try again later" (Windows/Linux)?

Doesn't seem that Firefox or Firefox Nightly are effected.

I don't understand why or how this has happened. It is very inconvenient to have my bookmarks on the complete opposite of where the tabs and address bar are. I cannot seem to find a way in the 'customize toolbar' interface to actually move it either. So frustrating!

I was trying to run some websites like youtube,google,and reddit,and some flash test,when i came across an averege club penguin remake, which the website is over here https://play.cpjourney.net/ ,and ,it didnt run!It was just a blue screen.Can someone help me?

I've delayed updating as earlier attempts a month ago exhibited the same no bookmarks toobar error. But I gave it another shot today and the problem persists. Has anyone found a fix or workaround?

Can you add these new features to waterfox and all other features firefox nightly has?

https://preview.redd.it/wpbtj2fy279e1.png?width=676&format=png&auto=webp&s=bb0ed021aff6bb94bdf79441fdd9f30ae51fe83b

I was wondering how Waterfox was built by the founders and developers. In the source code, all I could see is the extra waterfox folder with mozilla. Any ideas on how to get started?

Ok this is kinda two problems in one with the website

Chrome web store is inconsistent and only sometimes displays the button as "Add to Waterfox" and when it does it's in a different font (dunno if this actually changes anything tho)

And whenever i try to download any extension from it (tried both random ones that are popular and ones i wanted to import from chrome) i just get this error that I haven't seen being mentioned anywhere else here

"undefined - This add-on could not be installed because of a filesystem error."

Is this supposed to happen? Any idea on what it could be?

Edit: Forgot to include this when i made the post but I'm on Windows 10, don't know if this is OS specific but i feel like i should still clarify that

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My bookmarks toolbar seems to have disappeared. I've gone through all the settings, but I can't find a way to get it back. The setting for displaying bookmarks below the address bar doesn't seem to be working. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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How do I remove the watermark on my screen?

I have a weird issue with the font scaling on waterfox. The font for my tabs, menus and etc went all small. I tried goign into the CSS and making the line to change font scaling two different ways and both didn't work.
This is the second time this has done this for me and last time iw as able to fix it by messign with the windows scaling / fire fox scaling and now i cannot do that because of the settings.

Not sure if this issue is unique to Waterfox, or if it's just Youtube messing with me, but I am being signed out frequently. It's a pain in the butt to type my exceedingly long password every time. I was wondering if there is an known issue and a fix is being worked on, or if it's just me, and I need to look into some other settings. I read that I should try clearing cache and cookies, running as admin, re-install (every version of) VCRedist_x64, but non of that's solved the problem.

Waterfox support page, and one or two others (that I know of thus far) are currently dishing out 404's. Not sure where else to turn; my apologies if this isn't the place to ask these kinds of questions.

Using Waterfox Version 6.5.2 (64-bit)

OS: Windows 10 22H2 (OS build 19045.5247)

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Right... Is there a way to prevent Waterfox from never ever saving site data? Cookies are fine but It really fricks with Youtube and other sites that should usually show something else when refreshing. Cleaning does help, but only for the first refresh and I would like to have that disabled. Plus the browser gets hella sluggish once it reaches 1.0gb

What is this?? Should 6.5.2 still be compatible with W7 or is the info on the Watefox website wrong?

If incompatible and someone forgot to update the info, or the info is static for all versions, then what is the last version that can be installed on Windows 7?

Waterfox forgets my printers after a day or so. PDF option only.

When I reboot the computer, the printers re-appear

Firefox, Brave, L Office have no problems finding my printers, this is Waterfox specific and has been an issue since install months ago

Waterfox G6.0.20

Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon 6.0.4

Thanks for any thoughts!

printers peaced out