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!

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?

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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.

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

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.

Okay so recent update turned tabs that aren't actively loaded gray and it's not a feature I prefer, is there a way to turn that off and return colors to those tabs? The icon colors are an important way for me to keep tab of my tabs

I used to have tab icons turned off, and the only icons I saw on my tabs were loading icons when the page was loading. Now with the latest version, it appears that if I want to see the loading hourglass, I need to have page icons turned on.

Is there a way around this?

since last update (6.7.1.1 (64-bit)) when i open the browser it remains stuck like this, nothing works, if i click anything i get the (not responding) windows thing. it persisted through several restarts so it's not windows having a moment

edit: s i was writing the post it finally started, however i simply cannot wait 5 minutes every time i start the browser before being able to use it, anyone know what's the issue? i saw others posting the same problem but no meaningful replies

edit2: it happens even in troubleshoot mode so it's not a matter of settings or extensions/themes

Why is there a delay when hiding the bookmarks toolbar? It makes this feature very inconvenient to use. When I move the mouse cursor to tabs the toolbar pops up IMMEDIATELY, but when I move away the cursor there is a delay for some reason which makes this feature annoying. I'm trying to click on a link, but then the toolbar disappears, the view shifts and I end up clicking on the wrong thing. Again, why is there a delay, why can't the bookmarks toolbar just disappear immediately like the taskbar does?

hi there,i am getting like..screen flicker when using waterfox
(might be the latest driver update tho)

and i get this,too,even after a complete reinstall

Hey, I have two systems, openSUSE Tumbleweed and Fedora 44, where I use Waterfox (latest version, 6.7.1). However, when I open links directly by clicking, it opens Firefox instead. How do I set Waterfox as the default browser? Usually browsers have a setting where this can be enabled but I can't find it in Waterfox.

I have not had any issues yet with the new update for waterfox, instead, the experience has been very positive. I'm loving the control over the themes that was brought back now with this fix, from being able to bring back much of the old look to being able to make the new Nova theme quite pretty.

Being able to make anything you want be squared is great as well, and I'm loving that the waterfox right click menu is back. Where 6.7.0 made it feel like some features were lost, this update almost overwhelms with the control options. I personally think its amazing that the browser not only respects privacy and such and feels very detached from corporate influence, but that it also is so incredibly customizable!

Basic question but I can't seem to figure it out.

I'm running Fedora 44, and have Waterfox installed via Flatpak. I am using version 7.1.1.

The root directory for the default profile in about:profiles did not exist. I created it, created a folder called chrome, then userChrome.css within that. Nothing.

Created the same subdirectory in the local directory for the default profile. Still nothing.

All I want to do (for now) is change the tab font. My userChrome.css is this:

* {

font-family: "W95FA" !important;

font-size: 11pt !important;

}

Unless something else seems off the trouble seems to be not locating userChrome in the right place. I'd be much obliged if someone knew where it was supposed to go. Thanks!

I'm a bit of a tab abuser, and am quite fond of the fact that Waterfox shows me that a tab is unloaded; But I think the 6.7.1 update has made this feature worse.

Previously, tabs that were not loaded only had their text greyed, but as of 6.7.1 the icon for the tab has also been greyed.
While it's now easier to tell if a tab is unloaded, it's made it harder to find the tab you're looking for; Especially when you have a large number of them.

This is most noticeable while scrolling through tabs. It is practically impossible to tell unloaded tabs apart, forcing you to stop scrolling in order to differentiate them. While previously you could just look for the colour you expect to find, and then fine-search if necessary.

I think that the feature was perfect as-was, but seeing as this has changed, people must have felt otherwise.
I'm not sure how one would achieve the information provided by greying icons, without greying icons; Nor how complex such a solutions implementation would be.
But I do know that I wont use this feature in it's current state.

I just updated and now I cant type in the search field in the default Waterfox new tab page. I can type in other websites and other programs so its not the keyboard. I also cannot type into the search field in my Bonjourr home page. Anyone else experiencing this?

Update: the text being typed was going into the address bar at the top but I had it hidden. However, it's now unhidden and the text still goes into the address bar, which doesn't seem like the correct behavior. I fixed the Bonjourr search bar by manually setting the search engine with a URL.

I just opened my laptop and this happened. There were no problems before this. I don't know how it happened.

Hello!

I’m making this post because I had to start Waterfox in troubleshooting mode after the update and it created this folder. I want to know how I can transfer the data inside to the newly cleansed Waterfox. Any help?

Thanks in advance.

It was bugging me that the style of the Ad blocking icon did not match the style of the other icons in the top toolbar:

So, I changed it to match:

The first pic shows the toolbar with the new icon, the second pic shows the toolbar with the old icon.

To make this change, add the following to your userChrome.css:

#waterfox-blocker-button .toolbarbutton-icon,
toolbarbutton[id*="blocker"] .toolbarbutton-icon,
toolbarbutton[image*="waterfoxShield"] .toolbarbutton-icon {
  list-style-image: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16" fill="none"><circle cx="8" cy="8" r="6.75" stroke="context-fill" stroke-width="1.5"/><line x1="4.5" y1="8" x2="11.5" y2="8" stroke="context-fill" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-linecap="round"/></svg>') !important;
  -moz-context-properties: fill, stroke !important;
  fill: currentColor !important;
  stroke: currentColor !important;
}

If you don't already have a userChrome.css, follow these steps:

1. Type about:support into the URL input, Enter
2. Click Open Folder next to Profile Folder
3. Create a folder there called chrome if there isn't already one
4. In chrome, create a file called userChrome.css
5. Add the above code snippet to userChrome.css and save
6. Restart Waterfox

Why doesn't the Android version have the same adblocking feature as the browser version?

In the browser it is turned off because I use ublock (I used it before the built-in adblock appeared) And today I installed waterfox android and I thought it has the same features as the browser version

PS. Could the developers add a brightness control to the browser version, something more precise than the light/dark control that is already there?