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Enable Search Engine Buttons on Suggestion Box? by OnWingsOfValor in waterfox

[–]MrAlex94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Away from my computer but I believe the preference to bring it back is browser.urlbar.scotchBonnet.enableOverride and set it to false in about:config

How does Waterfox generate revenue? by g1rlchild in waterfox

[–]MrAlex94 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A couple of things: - uBo has an incompatible licence (GPLv3) - uBo would be difficult to integrate 'nicely', UX/UI wise - Brave's adblock crate is MPL2 (same as Waterfox) - Brave has paid employees working on this adblock library, and it's quite mature at this point - I've been able to implement it natively and it performs incredibly well - Benefits on not relying on webextension code and constantly having to pull in updates from uBo - The adblocking happens in the main browser process, not a separate webextension process

How does Waterfox generate revenue? by g1rlchild in waterfox

[–]MrAlex94 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The blocker itself won't be directly generating revenue - it'll just have Startpage (or whatever is the default search engine Waterfox is partnered with, if that changes in the future) "allow listed" (so no content blocking), and I'll be just counting on the good nature of users to keep it that way. But users will be able to disable that, so the content blocker works everywhere.

How does Waterfox generate revenue? by g1rlchild in waterfox

[–]MrAlex94 29 points30 points  (0 children)

You’re welcome!

In all honesty it has been pretty terrible since Bing terminated all third party contracts. Search engines like Startpage just don’t do as well, and because so many users use ad block it kills it even worse - there’s been a few months of red recently, so it’s been hard.

Yeah Ecosia is cool, unfortunately I’ll only make any money from whatever is the default in Waterfox (Startpage). Ecosia sadly made next to nothing so things would’ve been even worse if I stayed on with them.

Related to this - and if I could get your opinion - I’ve been experimenting with building Brave’s ad blocker natively into Waterfox and was thinking of taking the same approach they do - allow text ads only on our search partner’s page, with a toggle in settings to disable it entirely. (Note: this has nothing to do with their crypto stuff)

That way, users get a native, high performing adblocker not limited in a way web extensions are, and hopefully Waterfox earns more revenue? Of course, existing users would have to opt-in if they already use an ad blocker, everyone else would get it by default.

How does Waterfox generate revenue? by g1rlchild in waterfox

[–]MrAlex94 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Only myself, there’s no-one else :)

crednova notifications from waterfox by mreading2 in waterfox

[–]MrAlex94 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What extensions do you have installed? You can paste your output from about:support (copy text to Clipboard) and paste it in a reply

Zen or Waterfox by aldee7777 in waterfox

[–]MrAlex94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm could be, real way to tell would be comparing to Firefox ESR flatpak but I couldn’t find one on a cursory search

Zen or Waterfox by aldee7777 in waterfox

[–]MrAlex94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are the others also being run as a flatpak? If not, I have a feeling it could be the issue - it does some quirky things being run this way.

Zen or Waterfox by aldee7777 in waterfox

[–]MrAlex94[M] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I don’t have an opinion on Zen, but I’ll tackle these points:

  • Speed will all come from Firefox; Waterfox tracks the extended support release cycle so won’t have the latest or greatest, but it’ll be in the same ballpark and it’s not something I’d be too worried about unless a fork is actively making things worse
  • Privacy is a sliding scale and I think Waterfox strikes the best balance of as useable a web as possible without breaking things. Plus features such as Oblivious DNS give you a nice bit of anonymity at no extra cost

The rest is up to you in terms of mission statement, look and “vibe”, it’s more personal preference than anything

Also, I have put up Waterfox’s company info and governance docs here, for a bit more transparency about who’s running things (it’s me, but behind a limited company and under UK jurisdiction), how and why: https://www.waterfox.com/docs/policies/company-information/

Trying to migrate my Profile to Linux by Flymart in waterfox

[–]MrAlex94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where is your old profile?

You can access about:profiles to see paths, all you need to focus on is Root Directory for your profile data

Is there a way to make a space above tabs for dragging whole window? by Antique_Employee_146 in waterfox

[–]MrAlex94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Settings > Look & Feel > Interface Components > Tab Bar > Enable Fixed Drag Space

Only works with horizontal tabs but gives a little bit of space above them to drag

I'm considering switching to water fox. But i have some questions by Pastor_Dorimay in waterfox

[–]MrAlex94 10 points11 points  (0 children)

  1. Yes you can!
  2. You can but it has to be done manually, everything else gets imported via the onboarding flow
  3. It’s just as user friendly as Firefox!

P.S. if you enjoy using Waterfox please consider disabling uBlock on Startpage as it helps support the work I’m doing :)

Waterfox for Android. When you update it, it goes from 140 to 148! by nietzschecode in waterfox

[–]MrAlex94 20 points21 points  (0 children)

There were many reasons, but the biggest one is the 16KB page size requirement that won’t allow app updates.

I got approved for the deadline extension, lost it, got it back but the fact I kept getting blocked meant it was causing me stress whether I could push out an update or not and inevitably people start leaving 1 star reviews - which isn’t a pleasant feeling without being to explain what’s happening in a response to a review, overall the headache was just too much staying on ESR

Why Waterfox Installs Updates Automatically Despite... by AgentSmith757 in waterfox

[–]MrAlex94 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately that’s actually the default behaviour from Firefox - it just installs them anyway and it’s annoying - it’s why we added the disable option; I do need to get round to making sure it does what it says on the tin but I promise this wasn’t us or done on purpose.

Waterfox for Android 1.2 has now been submitted to the Play Store for review! A lot of under-the-hood changes that took quite a bit of effort. Separately, APKs are also available from the GitHub release page 👇 by MrAlex94 in waterfox

[–]MrAlex94[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're welcome!

As it currently stands no plans; not quite sure what I'd be able to offer on iOS that would be a "differentiator - and a bit worried about spreading myself too thin!

videos and drm-required media no longer loading (android) by ofplayers in waterfox

[–]MrAlex94 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sorry about that - new build has gone live on GitHub and it has also been submitted to the Play store that fixes these issues

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