My browser journey started with internet explorer like most people back in windows 95 days. I continued to use it on my laptop until a teacher introduced us to Firefox and Opera. For some reason I thought that Opera was the better browser and used it for a short while. The problem was, it frequently displayed a lot for websites incorrectly mainly my favorite GameFAQs due to its using its own rendering engine. Getting fed up with this, I switched to Firefox and fell in love.

Firefox was light years ahead of both internet explorer and opera which was also had a paid pro version lol. Not only Firefox was open source, it had a lot of features like tabs and best of all extensions and themes. Years later and after a lot of updates, Firefox kinda fell down in terms of quality. Became slower with bad design choices and here is when Google stepped in. It was a new fresh minimalist browser and everyone including me loved it. Little did we know that this would result in Google taking over the browser wars and in terms destroy most of browser engines.

Many years later and everyone hate Chrome so I switched to Brave, the new privacy browser. I still use it as a second browser for websites not working in Firefox engine but the reason I switched back to Firefox was that Brave switched to Chromium engine (Goggle Chrome) after discontinuing their own. Only option was going back to Firefox which got a lot better over all those years but still had some issues like collecting little data and here is where Waterfox comes in.

Waterfox strips the data collection, has cool features such as using Chrome extensions, turning any tab into a private one without opening new window and support for old Firefox add-ons to name a few. Another big factor is that the browser is lighter than Firefox and Chrome which in turn gives me way more battery on my Macbook Pro. You need to change some settings to make it better in my option such as bigger status bar and removing the always show X on highlighting tabs which resulted in me closing a lot of tabs accidentally. I know am using Waterfox mainly on my computers (laptop and desktops) across all OSes even my Android s23.

Note that Waterfox is using the Firefox engine and gets updated frequently but not the same day as Firefox. Give Waterfox a try. Its free and open source, you cant go wrong.