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this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2026
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I still remember the Mozilla Internet Application Suite before the browser part was spun off into Firefox and the email into Thunderbird. Some of their moves have been disappointing but I'll still never use Chrome
I remember that too.
BTW, Waterfox is a fork of FF ;)
Thanks for tip
The advice I've always read is to avoid forks because they usually get security updates slower than the main browser. Is that true of waterfox?
It might or might not be true, but I'm not sure it's particularly helpful advice. It's too wide-sweeping. Literally everything is a fork, apart from Firefox and Safari. Maybe Chrome, since they hard-forked and now go their separate ways from WebKit. But still, that's only 3 browsers. And unless you think that Firefox needs to be avoided because of its privacy violations but somehow are ok with Google Chrome, "avoid forks" doesn't work as an option.