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[–] Jumper775 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When I switched from FF to WF it was lighter on system resources, faster and cut out a lot of the telemetry included in FF.

I've not used Firefox for well over a year now, so I can't speak to that still being the case, but those were the main draws for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I switched off of waterfox and back to firefox with arkenfox user.js when I noticed they were behind on a security update.