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ʻO ke kumu kumu wai ʻo Waterfox kahi hoʻololi kūikawā o ka paepae Mozilla, i hoʻolālā ʻia no ka pilikino a me ka koho mea hoʻohana i ka noʻonoʻo. Hiki iā ʻoe ke hoʻokomo iā ia a hoʻohui i ka Waterfox me ka ʻole o nā pilikia. Ua hoʻokō ʻia nā hoʻololi ʻē aʻe a me nā patch i ʻoi aku i luna no ka hoʻoponopono ʻana i nā pilikia pili/palekana a hiki i Mozilla ke haʻalele i ka hoʻokō ʻana (maʻamau no ka mea ʻaʻole ia he mea nui). Hoʻopau ʻia nā hiʻohiʻona noi kiʻekiʻe e Mozilla akā makemake ʻia e nā mea hoʻohana (inā ʻaʻole i wehe ʻia ma muli o ka palekana). Ke nānā aku nei ʻo Waterfox i ka hāʻawi ʻana i nā koho mea hoʻohana. Hoʻokumu ka polokalamu kele pūnaewele i nā mea hoʻohana mana, kahi e hiki ai iā ʻoe ke hana i nā hoʻoholo koʻikoʻi. ʻAʻohe plugin whitelist (ʻo ia hoʻi, hiki iā ʻoe ke holo i nā polokalamu Java Applets a me Silverlight), hiki iā ʻoe ke holo i nā mea hoʻonui āu e makemake ai (me nā bootstrapped add-ons e hiki ke hoʻololi piha i ka hana o ka polokalamu kele pūnaewele) a ʻaʻohe ʻikepili a telemetry e hoʻihoʻi ʻia iā Mozilla a i ka papahana Waterfox. E ʻimi i ka pūnaewele i kou ala, me ka polokalamu kele pūnaewele indie: ʻAʻohe Telemetry, ʻAʻohe Kohi ʻIkepili, NPAPI Plugins, Bootstrapped add-ons, Polish your userChrome, Stable API.
Like Firefox, Waterfox wants people’s attention since their default search engine is paid for by the company that bought them a few months ago https://www.waterfox.net/blog/waterfox-has-joined-system1/ – System1 https://system1.com is specialized in advertising. Basically they are buying small search engines or browsers to inject their own search engines into them as default. Yes, anyone can fork this project since it is Open Source. Yes anyone can change the default search engine. But yes, Waterfox is trade-based since they clearly want people’s attention. Else they would have chosen the best search engine they know off, not one that is paid for. Don’t forget that for one search is an essential part of a browser, and second that most people probably do not know how or simply do not change their default search engine.