Reviews of Waterfox

1. 
   cltx99

   Reviewing 18.0.1 (Jan 22, 2013)

   It's very good. However, I didn't detect any noticeable differences in performance compared to the latest FF release. So, I decided to stay with FF.
2. 
   lescaut

   Reviewing 16.0.1 (Jan 18, 2013)

   Not usually one to take the trouble to write a review.
   Tried this browser a year or so back. It crashed regularly and was
   therefore uninstalled after only a short while.
   Disappointed with my regular browsers of choice, I decided to
   try Waterfox again. It is fast, stable and "feels" right. Easily set up
   and hardly recognisable as the browser that gave me grief last time.
   Touch wood! Just made it my default browser, generally the time when
   things go awry.
3. 
   Slug_Coordinator

   Reviewing 15.0 (Sep 4, 2012)

   Waterfox 64 has issues with Supporting Divx, Xvid, and Quicktime playbacks. Also it freaks out with Gmail and some other sites found out you have to go into the about:config and turn off the network.http.spdy.enabled.v2 to false as well as the network.http.spdy.enabled.v3 to also be set to false...
   
   So if you get funny characters that's the fix to resolve it which really is sad considering those are suppose to be speed optimizations so it's kinda useless to have them if you cant use them.
   
   Codec Support is terrible, Divx, Xvid, and Media Player Codec for Firefox will not work with this version. It's terrible and sad at the lack of work done here where its needed to make Waterfox viable. basically you have to run 32 bit Firefox to enjoy most of the common Web Codec Multimedia formats. Waterfox is not meant to do this.
   
   Seriously I'm not sure why that is not worked on more version 13 - 15 is a huge disappointment as far as multimedia goes. Guess with these bugs and they have yet been addressed its time to go back to Firefox until these are resolved.
4. 
   Sven123456789

   Reviewing 14.0.2 (Aug 15, 2012)

   speed is excellent but like some users mentioned. That pop up add thing is a problem. Also a problem, When I use Pale Moon, it seems to be seperate from firefox in the directory. So I can use both at the same time like using 2 different browsers. Waterfox seems directly linked to firefox. So if you decide to use waterfox, you can forget about firefox being your main browser. I know firefox is fooling around with a 64 bit version. I've used it, very fast but not many apps work with it.
5. 
   cltx99

   Reviewing 14.0.1 (Jul 30, 2012)

   I was looking forward to WF 14, but it's a disappointment. Hardly any decent skins work with it. Also there's occasional error pop-ups. Once you get through that it worked just fine. I installed a program called "Expat Shield" so that I could watch the Olympics using BBC Iplayer. WF 14 was the default browser and Expat shield wouldn't work as well as Iplayer.
   
   I reinstalled WF13 and everything worked just fine. It seems that WF14 needs some work. Until it's up to snuff I'll be using WF13.

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