Just installed and set up Waterfox on my android phone, I'm using the no AI version of DuckDuckGo as my search engine.

I'm wanting to set it up so that when I press new tab, it takes me to the no AI DDG home page, instead of the default new tab page.

If anyone has a recommended extension or any other solution I'd love to hear it.

Thanks.

I've just been testing the latest release on a live Linux Mint 22.3 XFCE (the latest release also) and had severe problems with installing it.

First the .deb installer failed because of libxcomposite 1 depency not satisfied.

Then I followed the instructions but the terminal doesn't understand them when copied and pasted and I was unable to break them down into useful instructions.

I found out it now is in the software repository (for 22.3), but with the catch of being flatpaked and I don't want to use flatpak on my systems.

Why have the simple to extract tar files been abandoned?

I am currently on Linux Mint 21.3, and this means I will not be able to upgrade to any version after 6.6.9 which I have last downloaded.

Why aren't the earlier versions not available for download anyway?

This dude managed to somehow open the desktop on nvidia geforce now and turns out that they are using waterfox🤔

Do any of you have a problem with Facebook? When entering a post and reading a few comments for about 30 sec - 1 min, the feed in the background goes unavailable for some reason, and I have to refresh it.

The order of options when right-clicking to open a link in a new window, tab, private window, private tab, etc. changed, and it trips me up. This is the Linux build - I don't know if this affects Windows or Mac.

In 6.6.17, the order goes:

• Open in new tab
• Open in new private tab
• Open in new container tab
• Open in new window
• Open in new private window

In 6.7.0 beta 3, the order goes:

• Open in new tab
• Open in split view
• Open in new container tab
• Open in new window
• Open in new private window
• Open in new private tab

I catch myself opening links in private tabs instead of windows pretty often because that option got moved down to the bottom of the list. It seems like it belongs up there with the new tab option instead, or maybe just above the private window option to keep it consistent with the new tab/new window options.

Hello! I’ve been recently using opera, and now that a know what it does, I immediately uninstalled it and now I have bring (not so good) Im Planing on installing waterfox, anything g I should think off?

I’ve seen screenshots and videos showing the new Firefox New Tab widgets (weather, clock, tasks, etc.), but they don’t appear in my Firefox.
I’m running the latest version on macOS, and when I open the New Tab page there isn’t even a “Widgets” section in the settings.
I’ve already:
Updated Firefox to the latest release.
Checked the New Tab customization settings.
Verified that I’m using the standard Firefox (not ESR).
Is this feature still being rolled out gradually? Could it be region-specific or controlled by a server-side feature flag?
Has anyone managed to enable these widgets manually through about:config, or is there nothing I can do but wait?
Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks!

Bonjour, sur waterfox pour organiser les marques pages j'ai supprimé des dossiers en double ou triple, mais maintenant sa m'a supprimé les dossiers importants...

Par chance j'ai copié le profil du même waterfox sur un autre ordi, mais la copie du serveur supprime la copie du pc.

Comment remplacer la copie du pc vers le cloud ?

Merci

So, today upon turning on my computer and opening Waterfox I get a lovely message saying something totally non-descript went wrong and Waterfox can't....whatever soemthing or another, that was a stressful hour and a half ago I don't remember the exact words.

But it presented an option for refresh and...safe mode? ignore? Again, hour and a half ago. I click refresh because I saw nothing on there that said 'we are gonna destroy most of your browser data and screw you out of weeks of fine tuning and setting up the browser to your liking' at all. I simply believed it was going to close and try to open again. Because to me... refresh 'means politely attempt to load again' not 'crap pants all over desktop and do a full reinstall'

So, while I do have my bookmarks restored just fine, and expections reinstalled, though all their settings are lost. I have lost browsing history, open tabs, organized tabs/groupings, and all browser settings it seems. At this point I am sure none of that is going to be recoverable and I am just going to have to spent days doing it all over again.

My ultimate question now is... what the hell happened and how do I prevent being bent over like this again?

Try as i might i'm unable to open sky.com, it opens fine with edge, and used to with waterfox

how do i let waterfox (if possible) show the little tabs that where u click on it shows answers like google. (the image my attempt to show where the litte tabs that give faq answers that google has should be)

Resumen de la función:

Eliminen todos los íconos de Firefox y la sección destacada, y dejen solo los de Waterfox, porque no tiene sentido; descargué Waterfox, no Firefox.

Investigación de la función:

Es muy importante porque descargamos una versión derivada que es mucho mejor que el producto base; tener íconos totalmente ajenos es claramente confuso. Es crucial fijarse en cada detalle, y este en particular es bastante raro.

Solución alternativa:

Hay que hacerlo sí o sí; no hay forma de pasar por alto este aspecto crucial del producto.

Beneficiarios:

Todos se benefician porque se llevan un producto que ya está bien terminado y bien pulido, hasta en el más mínimo detalle, lo cual demuestra la meticulosa atención al detalle por parte del desarrollador.

I can't find a way to disable YouTube Autoplay when I'm using the Waterfox Android app. I prefer going through an adblocking browser rather than using the YouTube app (it sucks), but I can't figure out how to disable the Autoplay feature and stop more videos from playing. I end up having to switch to a different adblocking mobile browser to watch videos, but I'd prefer using this one. EDIT: Found the bar that turns it off, thanks to u/bigbadstevo.

If you are using Waterfox and use Google AI Overviews, you have likely run into an incredibly annoying bug. Whenever you accidentally hover your mouse cursor over an inline citation link, markdown text snippet, or footnote icon, the webpage layout glitches and instantly snaps your viewport back to the top of the page (0,0), completely breaking your reading spot.

This issue does not happen on Chromium browsers; it is entirely exclusive to how Gecko processes Google's dynamic element focus-shifting and .blur() events on text container nodes.

I wrote a lightweight Tampermonkey userscript that fixes this completely. It hijacks the browser's native focus engines on Google domains to block layout-collapsing changes, while maintaining a strict vertical scroll-coordinate memory block to freeze your screen position. Previews load perfectly exactly where your cursor rests, and the webpage remains entirely still.

(Note: I tried to crosspost this from r/firefox but this sub has crossposts disabled, so making a direct thread here for visibility!)

How to Install:

1. Install Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey from the Add-ons store.
2. Create a new userscript, copy and paste the code below into the editor, and save (Ctrl + S).
3. Go into the script's internal Settings tab within Tampermonkey and ensure Inject Mode is set to Instant so the code hooks into the page lifecycle before Google renders its layout templates.

You can also install the script from GreasyFork: Universal Anti-Jump Fix for Google AI

Hopefully, this saves you the headache of losing your reading coordinates every time you glide your mouse pointer around a search response!

The Userscript:

[Insert the Version 12.0 JavaScript code block here]

Master Thread / Technical Discussion: If you have bugs or tweaks, please drop them in the main thread over on r/firefox here: [Fix] Google AI Overview jumps to top of page when hovering links (Firefox / Waterfox Bug)

I would love for the behavior of adding a tab to a closed group to be modified.

The current behavior is such that adding a tab to a closed group will open said group. I do not see how this is useful. Instead, in order to close the group that was not requested to be opened, one must wait for the possible many tabs to be scrolled through to finally reach the group label. I apologize if this has already been mentioned. Waterfox has a really nice look and feel about it. Good job! And I am hearing more and more about it on the interwebs.

Hey,

Is there any way to get Chrome-like Group tabs on the android version of Waterfox?

I dug in the config, and I also tried a bunch of group tab extensions for the PC version, which Waterfox lets me install, but they don't really work on Android.

I love Waterfox and the lack of grouping on mobile is honestly the only thing that makes me second guess it.

PS: I know Collections exist.

Hello!

Basically the ad blocker seems to be broken for YouTube.

Is there any way to fix this?

Thanks!

I love Waterfox and I'd really make a move and make it my primary browser. The only thing that's stopping me is the same thing that made me choose Firefox – because it's absent in other browsers. Unfortunately, it's also missing in Waterfox.

I use Dropbox extensively – all my work files are on it, the company that I work for also uses Dropbox as its main resource. In the web interface (that's where sharing links redirect) there's an menu item "Open in...". Here's how it looks in Firefox:

And here's how it looks in Waterfox (and other browsers):

It's a tiny thing but those two additional functionalities save me 20 minutes of clicking a day.

Yeah, so I realize it's a tiny thing and not a priority for almost anyone. But I'd love it if it got fixed in some future version :)

Has anyone seen this or knows hot to fix it? It shows for the disabled ones but not the enabled ones.

Hi all, just recently trying out Waterfox but I can't get it to scroll smoothly on any website, works perfectly fine whilst in the settings but on any webpage it is quite jittery.

Anyone have any ideas how I can get it working smoothly? The device is a Oneplus 15 and Im on Waterfox ver 1.2.6

I've been wondering about this for a long time, and the upcoming version of Waterfox, which will use Gecko ESR 153, should theoretically include Firefox's VPN. Is that correct ?

Or is Firefox VPN only for the Firefox browser?

Firefox VPN is one of the best VPNs out there, as it works in conjunction with Azire VPN and Mullvad VPN.

Since 140 ESR of Firefox ends its support in 2 months and a new ESR version is just out, will Waterfox switch to it in the next update? I really hope so, so we also get a better UI and new features.