WaterFox Browser, Recoded From Mozilla (Install AppImage on Ubuntu / Linux Mint)

Waterfox was started back in March 2011 by myself (Alex Kontos), a 16 year old student. I had a fascination for the web and wanted to help expand on the ideals of what Mozilla had for a free and open web. And so I decided to make Waterfox, a 64-Bit browser based on Mozilla's free and open source platform.

Waterfox was one of the first widely distributed 64-Bit browsers on the web and quickly gained a loyal following. At a time Waterfox had one thing in mind: speed, but now Waterfox also attempts to be an ethical, user-oriented browser.

Waterfox focuses on giving users choice. The browser is focused on power users, which lets you make the important decisions. There is no plugin whitelist (meaning you can run Java Applets and Silverlight apps), you can run whichever extensions you like (including Classic Firefox Add-Ons!) and absolutely no data or telemetry is sent back to Mozilla or the Waterfox project.

Features of Waterfox Browser :

• Compiled with Clang-cl on Windows, Clang+LLVM on Linux
• Disabled Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)
• Disabled Web Runtime (deprecated as of 2015)
• Removed Pocket
• Removed Telemetry
• Removed data collection
• Removed startup profiling
• Allow running of all 64-Bit NPAPI plugins
• Allow running of unsigned extensions
• Removal of Sponsored Tiles on New Tab Page
• Addition of Duplicate Tab option (toggle with browser.tabs.duplicateTab, thanks to PandaCodex)
• Locale selector in about:preferences > General (further improved by PandaCodex)

What's new in Waterfox 56.2.5?

Waterfox has been patched with all the latest ESR security fixes.

Note: Website will update slowly with new version.

• Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories patched
• Fix macOS Mojave rendering issues.
• There is now a complete backup of all classic add-ons from the Mozilla Add-On Store, mirrored on the Waterfox CDN. You can use the Classic add-on Archive add-on to view the catalogue. This will be integrated into the next minor Waterfox version (56.3).

Install Waterfox 56.2.5 on Ubuntu (18.04/18.10) and Linux Mint System (PPA) :

To install Waterfox 56.2.5 on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver, Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish, Linux Lite 4.2, Deepin 5.7, Linux Mint 19.1, Elementary OS 5 'Juno', Linux Lite 4.2 stable and other Ubuntu derivative systems using (AppImage), open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Download Appilage Waterfox Latest version :

$ wget https://dl.opendesktop.org/api/files/download/id/1542449096/s/9deff8411e3c418a2f3705e9cda206968259fa45e1d283406e55a5bf86ed56852993115b0aefc0842e7c795af833fbb04293391f739ba7a55972d071f850e290/t/1542893370/u//Waterfox-0-Buildlp150.4.1.glibc2.17-x86_64.AppImage

Change Permission and run AppImage :

$ sudo chmod +x Waterfox-0-Buildlp150.4.1.glibc2.17-x86_64.AppImage

$ ./Waterfox-0-Buildlp150.4.1.glibc2.17-x86_64.AppImage