| ▲ | zettabomb 13 hours ago | |
I remember using Waterfox when it was new. I moved away from it when Firefox started pushing 64 bit builds natively, and I've stuck with it since then. Recently though it does seem as if they might be going down a dark path, so perhaps I'll consider switching again. I remember Waterfox was hard forked after Quantum became a thing, in order to keep support with XPI - is that still the case? | ||
| ▲ | MrAlex94 13 hours ago | parent [-] | |
The hard fork was "Waterfox Classic", which just became unsustainable to maintain. Rather than support for XPI (which is just the packaging for Firefox webextensions), the current version of Waterfox does still support bootstrapped extensions - in theory anyone can still write one, with access to all the privileged JavaScript APIs typically not accessible to MV2/MV3 webextensions. It's not widely used though, there are two repos I'm aware of that take advantage of this: https://github.com/xiaoxiaoflood/firefox-scripts/tree/master... | ||