net.waterfox.waterfox
Waterfox is a privacy-focused browser built for power users who value customization and control over their online experience. It pairs a privacy-first foundation with the kind of deep customization normally reserved for extensions and hidden flags.
Waterfox routes DNS-over-HTTPS through a Fastly-hosted Oblivious HTTP relay, disables DNS prefetching, blocks 0.0.0.0 lookups, and leaves Safe Browsing calls off so lookups stay private. Cookie-banner automation rejects consent prompts when possible, HTTPS-First is enforced, Global Privacy Control is declared, and telemetry, experiments, analytics, and ad feeds are stripped out.
Private Tabs let you flip any tab into an isolated session with its own history, cookies, and default search. Tab context shortcuts can copy URLs, unload sleeping tabs, or restart the browser with cache-purge options, while privacy-first ergonomics keep scripted pop-ups in tabs, prompt for new download handlers, and restore the classic status bar with live link previews.
Layout controls move tab bars, bookmark bars, restart switches, and status bars without touching userChrome.css. Switch between Waterfox, Lepton, and Proton presets, adjust icon weight, padding, autohide behaviour, and rounding, or load legacy userChrome and userContent tweaks. Modern web APIs such as WebGPU, WebCodecs H.265, Web Share, JPEG XL, CSS Masonry, and scroll-driven animations are enabled by default, and Startpage plus Waterfox Private Search ship as defaults with a separate private-window engine.
Latest reviews
really good browser, but whoever is responsible for the flathub package on mint is taking quite long to update it for us
It works for the most part, but you can't join Discord voice channels in the webapp and possibly other mic-requiring systems due to the following banner: "You can't use speech synthesis because the speech dispatcher library is missing." It even links to a broken link when offering a solution: https://www.waterfox.com/support/speechd-setup - it also changes Ctrl+J to Ctrl+Shift+Y for mouse-less Downloads access, and I'm not sure of why.
I can't follow a Twitch channels. I get an error when I try to ask a question in ChatGPT. Otherwise, everything works fine; I haven't noticed any issues
I use it for sites with "digital rights media" protection and other stuff that breaks in Librewolf. I still prefer Librewolf, but it's nice to have an alternative to both Firefox and Chromium-based browsers for that kind of stuff.
Changed to Waterfox from Firefox, since the announcement that Firefox is going to be an AI based browser... Love Waterfox. It just works. also love the adblock and sponsorblock addons.
works well, and is now officially supported! hooray! i prefer it much more than firefox (or floorp). no ML/gen AI nonsense. was not able to import from floorp, but i just used the firefox sync to move things over instead.
Waterfox+ublock+sponsorblock work perfectly! Thanks for the great product. People, donate if you can to keep the project going.
Attractive, sleek - what's not to like about Waterfox? Well, one thing comes to mind, and OK, I'll admit maybe I'm just picky, but it's important to me that a browser actually open web pages, which Waterfox does well enough - until it doesn't. With no explanation, it suddenly hunkers into nonresponsiveness, like a severly autistic child. Reboot? Clear history? No: uninstall. Love your work so far, devs; do get back to us when you have something that works!
Installed fine, but when looking for bookmarks it found nothing. I have Firefox and Brave both installed with bookmarks. Removed from system since it was unable to do this first simple task.
very good webbrowser with both the posibility of having the old firefox and the new one with good preset for privacy i highly recomanded it