I love libre wolf that it doesnt annoy me with updates. I dont use ff anymore.

considering waterfox but previously used it and could not turn off updates. this is a critical thing for me. I hate annoyances and I hate when changes come and rearange shit on my screen. nope, dont care for it.

bulletproof way to disable updates ?

I have a Ryzen 9 5900x (12 core), so CPU is not the issue. I noticed with the most recent update. It takes over a minute from the initial Windows (10) app opening before my tabs and previously open tab are loaded. The browser previously loaded this stage within a few seconds. Anyone else have this issue? Is this something they are aware of and are working on? I have hundreds of tabs in the tab bar, but obviously only a few loaded at any time from lazy loading.

this isn't a big deal, it's just really annoying. i have a suspicion it's to do with the new fancy right-click menu. did they change something ??? .. is there a means to change it back?

After the latest update of Waterfox on Debian 13, I can no longer open it. The process just crashes. This happens with the update and also with a new install of the .deb file. The only way I can open Waterfox is create a new profile, but then if I close waterfox and try to reopen it will crash.

This is the error I get when I try to open it from the terminal.

waterfox
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Title. I want to block access to a website on my mobile browser. I've tried using AppBlock, but it doesn't work.

The problem

Right now Firefox file picker/choose is working, but not in Watefox.
I'm new to Watefox, but I did used Firefox for years.

My test currently is

• Go to https://www.virustotal.com/ and check a file for virus.
• Go to Wikipedia and try to save anything.

Things that I already tried (and work for Firefox):

• In about:config to make Firefox always use XDG portals for file pickers, which will make it use KDE’s file picker instead of the GTK one, Set:

  widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker=1
  

• In about:config to make Firefox Wayland use KDE file picker, create:

  widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal=true
  

• Change this environmental variable (Ex: .bashrc):

  export GTK_USE_PORTAL=1
  

• Portals config:

  $ cat ~/.config/xdg-desktop-portal/portals.conf
  [preferred]
  default=gtk
  org.freedesktop.impl.portal.FileChooser=lxqt
  

Installed

$ pacman -Qsq portal
libportal
libportal-qt6
xdg-desktop-portal
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
xdg-desktop-portal-lxqt

Questions

• What else I can do?
• I'm doing something wrong?

References

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal

System

distro: Arch Linux x86_64
kernel: 6.18.25-1-lts
compositor: river-classic (Wayland) shell: bash 5.3.15
term: tmux

Full updated, including last Waterfox.

Let's say I look up cat images, right?

With a normal image search, eventually my browser may end up loading an image directly from whatever random website is hosting it:

Me → random website → picture

Waterfox Private Search has an image proxy, so instead it can do:

Me → Waterfox → random website → picture

That's neat because the random website doesn't get my IP just because I'm loading its image.

BUT I noticed something that seems a little concerning.

When my browser asks Waterfox's image proxy for that cat picture, my current logged-in Waterfox Search session cookie is sent along with the request.

So instead of the image proxy simply receiving something like:

"Some random person wants cat.jpg"

it's receiving something more like:

"This authenticated Waterfox Search session wants cat.jpg."

That session is capable of being associated with my Waterfox Search account, which is also the account I use for my paid subscription.

To be clear, I'm NOT saying Waterfox saves this information or keeps a history of the images I request. Waterfox says they don't keep search logs/history, and I haven't found evidence otherwise.

What I don't understand is why my authenticated session needs to be sent to the image proxy at all.

If the proxy doesn't need to know who I am, why not give it some random temporary identifier like:

TempID: 809SDF8923i58

Then it just knows "TempID 809SDF8923i58 wants cat.jpg", sends the image back, and that temporary ID doesn't need to mean anything outside that interaction.

That seems like a better privacy design than sending my authenticated session and relying on a promise that the relationship isn't stored.

Also found what seems to be a separate image-proxy bug:

Me → original image website = works

Me → Waterfox proxy → same original image = sometimes HTTP 502

So for some valid original images, Waterfox's proxy returns a 502 instead of the image. I can't tell from my side whether that's the original host rejecting the proxy, a timeout, or something else going wrong in Waterfox's proxy/backend, but the original image itself works when accessed directly.

Hey, does anyone have suggestions on how to prevent getting logged out of Discord on Waterfox? I'm running 6.7.1.1., and running Privacy Badger, but I turned it off on Discord.

Is this happening to anyone else?

Firefox and its forks on Android don't support keyboard shortcuts from external keyboard and such. I've been using this browser a lot but as I got an Android Tablet, not having keyboard shortcuts for new tabs, windows etc. on Waterfox made me switch. Really only Chromium browsers have mobile keyboard shortcuts, so having this implemented would be a huge deal in my opinion. I doubt Mozilla would do anything about it anytime soon considering how long they've been aware of it with no fix for years. I'm aware mobile likely isn't a priority, but with folding devices and tablets becoming more mainstream I believe there's still incentive for it. (Oh, and vertical tabs but its more managable and niche)

this started happening recently. perhaps it's something to do with my xdg directory settings.

I can delete it but waterfox recreates it next launch

Was using Waterfox as normal, had my main window with ~150 tabs and had a private window with 1 tab open.
I swapped from the main window to the private one and watched my main window close for no reason. The private window stayed open so it didn't fully crash.
So I reopened the main window, all my tabs are gone.
"Must of crashed, good thing CTRL+SHIFT+T exists"
Nothing. Not a single tab returned, not even the one I had open when I switched windows.
Tried restarting, nothing. Open tab history seems to have been completely taken out.
This is on latest release (6.7.1.1) on Windows 10

I think the likelihood of recovering anything here is low, but I'd at least like to be able to find Waterfoxs logs so I could report this. Problem is I can't? Tried searching multiple times and I just can't figure out where they're stored.
So how would I report this properly/what do I do from here?
Thanks.

On Waterfox 6 (Windows 10 x64), since a certain update (about six weeks ago), opening an image in a new tab causes it to become misaligned.

The image appears on top of the screen instead of being centered. (see screenshot below).

This issue occurs with all image types: jpg, png, gif, etc.
Note: This issue is unrelated to the changes made this week. I’m using Waterfox 6.7.1.1 (64-bit), but the problem predates this version. It’s been going on for about 6 or 8 weeks.

Thanks for any help.

Just wanted to share. I'm on a journey to try and recreate a classic feeling OS (in Linux) experience. Waterfox was the best browser I could find that let me achieve this. So kudos to the team!

I had to do a little bit of work with the custom css, but I think I'm in love with it!

YouTube detects the built in adblocker

If you have issues too, just switch to ublock origin

Looked everywhere on the official waterfox site to downpatch as the new version is completely unusable. I get piggybacking off of current Firefox but don't understand why we can't downpatch. Even if it causes a security risk, that's probably worth using over the current state of things with memory leaks and disfunctional websites.

i usually have a bunch of tabs, and i have an addon that autosleeps ones im not currently in. this combined with the new feature to make them colorless is immensely destroying my ability to navigate my tabs.

color coding is one of the most important visual cues, it drives me mad every time colors are removed in modernized UI updates.

is there any way to disable?

Edit: courtesy of user 09dgceph, the setting to disable fading only exists when using the photon theme..... That explains a lot. Very odd design choices, hope they remedy this and make it default to colored.

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Features:

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A quick request to the community:

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The tabs are left with just that line when the hide option is enabled.The tabs are left with just that line when the hide option is enabled. Waterfox v.6.7.1.1

As abas ficam apenas com essa linha, quando ativa a opção de esconder.

It doesn't expand; it remains hidden.

How fix it!?

Before the newest update, you could clear the history on exit and keep your previous session. Now it just opens a new tab on restart on 6.7?

This update has been absolutely horrible for me, it used to take tens of minutes to start up when previously it took like 2 seconds at worst, now it take about a minute, recently I've noticed that a lot of my tabs are just gone which I assume is why it only takes a minute now to boot up, and tab groups disappear with tabs within in them just going to my system group.

I assume it has something to do with tabs, considering all the issues I'm having with them, but that I get a message saying that the script of "chrome://browser/content/tabbrowser/tab.js:397" has been slowing things down, I can't seem to figure out what that is though searching brings up nothing relevant, and I can't even find it with the debug tool.

You guys put all this work into making the browser customizable (which I appreciate) but still no forced dark mode for web pages. Why is this so hard to implement? There's extensions to use but they all have some kind of negative effects on the overall browsing experience. We need a built-in, efficient option.

Updating cause a infinite restart problems, and when opens it freeze up, then when I kill it va task manger everything was reset back to a blank profile with everything missing. Reinstalling 6.7.0 made it appear back to normal with all my tabs and extensions working fine. Hardware acceleration been disabled before. I'm turning off updates for now until it gets fix.

When I re-open waterfox, my sidebar is completely empty, except for my pinned tabs and group headers. I can go into History -> Hidden Tabs and then back out to find my tabs, but then I have to reload them 1 by 1, and I have a lot of tabs. This has happened 2 days in a row, this should be fixed as soon as possible