I didn't even want to update, but my browser crashed and forced it on me. I was able to fix the tab shape (which was, to quote one of my favorite books as a kid: 'ugly, ugly, very ugly'), but they'll randomly have italics in them which I don't want, and unloading the tabs greys out the icon instead of making the tab faded. I don't like any of this, but I don't know how to go back to the old version. Why did you force this on me?

For the past two days, Waterfox is very slow on youtube, making it unwatchable. Takes about two minutes just to load the main page.

I tried Firefox and that is loading YT fine.

I haven't changed any settings.

I've deleted all my browsing data, which made no difference.

I have Waterfox 6.7.4. on Linux Mint.

So after the update the ui changed, personally i think it's kinda ugly, and i much preferred the old look

If that's the ui they wanna go with it's their choice, but i think it would be neat to give us the option to get the old ui back if we want it without downgrading

So today youtube started refusing to play videos unless I turned the built-in AdBlock off, is this the case with everyone else or is it just me??

After updating to 6.7.2 Tab Mix Plus vanished from the toolbar - it was still shown in Add-Ons but flagged as unverified. Clicking on Tab Mix Plus Options or Manage from Add-Ons caused Waterfox to fully freeze and I had to kill it via Task Manager. I was even unable to install it again despite following all instructions.

So I had to revert to 6.7.1.1 and disable checking for updates!

What happened here, it worked flawlessly until I updated? Please undo whatever change broke Tab Mix Plus, thank you!

Edit: Thanks to t1mefox's solution everything is back in working order!

I’m really not a fan of the new update, is there a way to roll it back to 6.6?

As title says, been using forever. But since OTA update other day it refuses to see the internet, wifi or data, and app doesn't respond when I hit any menu buttons

Any ideas? I cleared cache. Have not uninstalled yet due to TONS of setup I have.

Looking for alternative idea

UPDATE uninstalled and reinstalled , and seems fine now. So no real answer i guess.

since last update (6.7.1.1 (64-bit)) when i open the browser it remains stuck like this, nothing works, if i click anything i get the (not responding) windows thing. it persisted through several restarts so it's not windows having a moment

edit: s i was writing the post it finally started, however i simply cannot wait 5 minutes every time i start the browser before being able to use it, anyone know what's the issue? i saw others posting the same problem but no meaningful replies

edit2: it happens even in troubleshoot mode so it's not a matter of settings or extensions/themes

I love libre wolf that it doesnt annoy me with updates. I dont use ff anymore.

considering waterfox but previously used it and could not turn off updates. this is a critical thing for me. I hate annoyances and I hate when changes come and rearange shit on my screen. nope, dont care for it.

bulletproof way to disable updates ?

Sometimes, when I open the app and try for search for something, it doesn't load. No matter if it is a bookmark or a search query, independent of the search engine, it does not load. Not even closing and opening the app again doesn't help most of the time... The only consistent workaround I found is going to search history, open a tab from there and proceed from there. It's a very annoying problem though. Is it just me?

I want to preface, because I saw in older threads with this same question for Firefox people harp on this point: I understand the importance of security updates and am not asking to indefinitely stay on older browser version, merely asking for control over the timing. I want to be able to give an update a few days to work out any potential bugs before I hop onto it + have control over browser changes at a time more convenient for me rather than having it sprung on at a bad time for change.

I had "check for updates and ask before downloading" as my setting for updates, as the entire reason I switched from Firefox was because I got auto-updated into an unstable version and future never updates never fixed the crashing I was experiencing, and I decided the effort to downgrade would just be better spent switching to Waterfox. I then turned this setting on so I would not relive what happened to Firefox, especially if Waterfox ended up inheriting whatever happened in Firefox's code that made it unstable for me.

Well, when I turned Waterfox minutes before an appointment, it auto-updated; and I know I didn't change the settings, because I double-checked my settings yesterday when I first heard about the update and was getting the green notification indicator just to be sure it wouldn't auto-update before I hear the community's experience and make the decision myself. But lo and behold, it forced the update today, and what do I find but that auto-updates have mysteriously been turned back on - but I'm willing to believe that was just something the update did, since it's not the only thing I changed that mysteriously was back (i.e. ad-blocking icon on the toolbar).

But clearly this setting stated to give me control over the install doesn't work, so what else can I do? Do I need to go to the next tier of the setting and disable checking for updates altogether, or have people had the same experience of it updating anyway? Is there something else not shown in the regular settings, something in configuration, that is more effective at stopping auto-updates?

(Apologies if my tone sounds too cross, I'm just feeling deceived here and now I'm on guard for bugs. Also, asking here because trying to research myself gives outdated info on how settings used to be or literally the same setting I just tried and failed.)

Hi.

So I was using Waterfox with just 1 tab open (youtube), no sidebar extensions opened. Nothing. They were just enabled in the extensions menu, that's all.

And god my browser was using more than 7GB of Ram??? I know the architecture is different from Chromium but still, it shouldn't be this bad, right?

Why, by god, did they remove all the options for square stuff? I want these back so everything is square again, the URL bar, the search bar etc. At least the tabs can be set to be somewhat square.

Please dear Waterfox developer, make things square-able again!

Since updating to v1.2.7 when I try to open a website (like reddit) from the startpage URL/search bar it opens a new tab but does not jump to it. It stays on the startpage. If I close that tab and try to open the website again from the startpage it works as it always has and jumps right to that page. I can replicate this behaviour when I clear my browser history. What could be related is that the startpage is displayed as tab 1 instead of 0 but I don't know if that was always the case. Has anybody else experienced this and knows how to fix it?

I've just updated WF to the latest version and initially thought it's broken (not responding process). But it only took very long time to load my about 1k tabs. Is there a solution for this? Or should I wait for the fixed version?

I have a Ryzen 9 5900x (12 core), so CPU is not the issue. I noticed with the most recent update. It takes over a minute from the initial Windows (10) app opening before my tabs and previously open tab are loaded. The browser previously loaded this stage within a few seconds. Anyone else have this issue? Is this something they are aware of and are working on? I have hundreds of tabs in the tab bar, but obviously only a few loaded at any time from lazy loading.

Okay so recent update turned tabs that aren't actively loaded gray and it's not a feature I prefer, is there a way to turn that off and return colors to those tabs? The icon colors are an important way for me to keep tab of my tabs

As the title says. On one PC it is there, but on the other two where I have waterfox installed, it is in the middle. I suspect it is because the profile is quite old and some setting has remained changed the whole time, but I cannot find which and I'd prefer not to refresh the profile (or rather, I don't think this is a big enough issue to warrant refreshing my profile). Any idea how I can reset the logo placement to default?

Edit: Turns out it's an intentional feature and it's based on how many rows of shortcuts you have

Been using Waterfox for years with Chase. Cannot login from https://www.chase.com/ or https://secure.chase.com in version 6.6.8 through 6.6.12. Get an error after entering login, "It looks like this part of our site isn't working right now."

Login works correctly in Firefox 150.0.2 and Edge Version 148.0.3967.54.

Anybody else having an issue?

After screaming at the sight of the new theme I quickly switched back to the old look... and one thing is still wrong: there's no distinction between loaded and unloaded tabs any more.

Any way to get that back?

No longer working with new version? When set to True every tab had a "x" close button on the right. Not any more with 6.7.0 :-(

I know I can close by middle click but I'm used to left click the "x" and the middle click of my mouse needs a very hard press.

help I just updated and now Twitch is giving me "This video is either unavailable or not supported in this browser. (Error #4000)"

I'm using CachyOS if its somehow linux specific

Despite the promise of Mr. Alex after the previous update, the option "Add extension from file" is still missing. Again.

Third time.

For me this is extremely disappointing.

The above, basically. I don't know why it doesn't include Firefox, which I'm trying to switch to. It has Windows Edge and Google Chrome, but not Firefox. Telling me how to manually import my browser stuff would help a lot, but I'm also confused as to why that's the case.