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Waterfox 346/6/2023 However, the case of Nano Adblocker was rather special because it was sold to criminals(!) without prior notice, and those criminals were prepared to tqake advantage of the situation immediately. Can literally happen to any project if the owner sells out. Now You: Do you use Waterfox? Describe your recent experience with the you trying to tell me that anyone can sell out and change software over night? If so, then this is hardly surprising. It is recommended to back up existing Waterfox installations / profiles before installing the new version to ensure that data can be restored should issues be experienced while using the new version of the browser or during migration.Īlex Kontos plans to release a full blog post and roadmap for features on the official Waterfox site. Users who would like to give the preview version of Waterfox's next generation version a try find download links on Reddit. Last but not least, Waterfox will support installing userChrome customizations directly in the web browser. The Chrome and Opera extension stores are mentioned specifically, but other stores will be supported as well. Kontos notes that users can expect the same set of features that previous versions of the Waterfox browser supported this includes, among others, support for NPAPI plugins and privileged extensions.Īnother feature highlighted by the lead developer is that Waterfox's third generation may get support for installing extensions from other add-on stores. The new version of Waterfox is based on Gecko 78.5.0, the same core that Firefox ESR will be upgraded to on November 11, 2020. PATCH version when you make backwards compatible bug fixes. MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards compatible manner, and MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes, The scheme divides the version into three parts: Major, Minor, and Patch. The Waterfox browser release will switch to a new release versioning, as it will be released as Waterfox G3.0.0. I could not get the Windows preview version to load any site other than internal sites at the time of writing a tab crash was thrown regardless of site that I tried to open using the preview.Īt least one other user reported the issue on the official Waterfox Reddit subreddit. I hope this has helped you understand Linux software and package management a little better.The preview is designed for testing only and bugs are to be expected at this point in time. Note that package names are usually all lower case (but not always, although names with upper case characters are uncommon in my experience).Īnd for those who can't let go of their mouse, there are GUI package tools like Add/Remove software and the Synaptic Package Manager. So not exactly what you were looking for, but several alternatives. Unfortunately apt-cache policy doom turns up nothing, but when you try apt-cache search doom you'll get loads of hits, and in the search results you'll see various games based on DOOM. Now let's say you're looking for the old classic game DOOM. So in this case it actually was available, but under a slightly different name. So next you could try apt-cache search waterfox, and again nothing is found, so it's pretty safe to assume it's not available from the default repositories for Raspbian Linux.Īnother example would be Mozilla's Firefox browser, which is not found by apt-cache policy firefox, but apt-cache search firefox finds firefox-esr (Mozilla Firefox web browser, Extended Support Release). However, that does not necessarily mean it's not available, you could just have the name wrong. ![]() ![]() If you try apt-cache policy waterfox, you will find nothing. Which will tell you what version is available, and what (if any) version is already installed.
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