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carputech4232
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Yes i see and followHey, I wasn't trying to convince or persuade anybody to try Waterfox. I just know that Firefox is painfully slow at certain things and uses a huge chunk of system resources. I just offered the info about Waterfox in case anybody is having issues with Firefox.
I started out long before there even were any personal computers. My first "PC", if you want to call it that was one I "built" using parts and pieces from the Tandy Corporation and it was built on a piece of plywood. I went through every stage of communication over phone lines and then via wireless and cable modems. Truth be told, I enjoyed the days of using BBS (electronic bulletin boards) a whole lot more than I like what we now have as the Internet. I had contacts all over the world and we traded all sorts of information and software. It was kind of like having a little, private club of guys that met at different times during the day and night.
I hated anything and everything that Microsoft created and threw at the public. I never used Internet Explorer, ever. I used Netscape Navigator which, in a certain way, was a precursor to Firefox. The one thing that pretty much every operating system and every piece of software does over a period of time is to add all sorts of bells and whistles which are really nothing but bloat. I therefore am on a never ending quest to find software that at least attempts to reduce and resist the bloat. Firefox was once one of the fastest browsers in existence. Then, like so many other pieces of software, it became a hugely bloated and resource hungry monster. That is what I try and avoid and this Waterfox I am running is definitely much faster than Firefox. I have no idea if I'm going to run into any problems down the road, but so far, so good.
StarTech, the speed of your Internet connection provided by your ISP is completely different from the speed of the browser. A browser can not make your connection any faster or slower. Likewise, a faster connection won't make your browser faster. The speed of the browser is how fast it can render the data fed to it via the Internet connection. Then, things like opening new tabs or new widows are a product of the browser. The reason I started looking again is because the last few updates to Firefox have caused pages to be rendered a lot more slowly. I only use webmail for all my different email addresses and about 4 or 5 months ago Firefox started taking as much as 5 seconds just to log me in to my primary email account. I can load that page quicker using Tor, but I don't like using Tor for everyday tasks. I usually only resort to Tor if I have intentions of visiting websites which haircut suits me I've never been to or if I'm going to hit a few places on the Dark Web. So, Waterfox seems to be providing what I need to do my daily browsing.
If anybody is interested in trying Waterfox and needs a little assistance, just give me shout. I run Linux, but I should be able to help with Windows based installations. I'm not too sure about helping with macOS. I just never got involved with any Apple products.
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