Hey everyone, line-item check to see if this is just me or a broader packaging issue.

Every time the Waterfox Flatpak runs an update, my saved logins and active browser sessions get completely wiped out, so I have to log back into all my sites manually.

Is anyone else running into this? I'm wondering if there's a sandbox permission tweaking ~/.var/app/ or a profile persistence issue in the Flatpak manifest itself. If anyone has a quick workaround—or if a maintainer sees this—I'm happy to grab logs or share system details to help iron it out. Thanks!

On android mobile Waterfox, A Bookmarks shortcut option on the expanded toolbar would be very much appreciated. Having to press on the 3 dots on the lower right corner, then i have access to the bookmarks shortcut, is not very user friendly.

I can't see a way to do this... is this possible with Waterfox? Many thanks in advance...

I'm unable to access FaceTime or Zoom when using Waterfox for PC or mobile. For FaceTime, the browsers tell me to use Edge or Chrome. For Zoom, it says that I need to be on Chrome 91.

Will there be support for FaceTime and Zoom in the future?

Which video conferencing apps are supported by Waterfox?

Or are there options that need to be tweaked on my end?

In the previous Waterfox Android update the option "Install extension from file" suddenly disappeared. There were two posts about it here and since many days I was waiting for the next update.

Today the next update came and the option is still missing!

Why? In Firefox Android it is there as always.

So, please bring it back.

Please!

I tried to change my Waterfox on my android from my regular profile to my private gaming profile this morning for the first time and could not find a way to do that. Everything I could find was for the desktop only. Any suggestions or am I just out of luck?

Captain Quack.

I heard about this about a week or two ago and I have returned to enjoying YouTube. This browser has been great, but all of a sudden it says YouTube won’t load because I’m using an ad blocker. I checked and Waterfox is up to date. Is there anything I can do? Thanks!

As of this morning, my phone will simply not sync with the Mozilla server so my tabs and stuff doesn't show on my other devices.

Anybody know what's going on because it was working last night?

Hello everyone, I've been a very happy watrefox user for a good few years now. Normally I use ublock origin with my web browsing, enabled on all sites with the built in ad blocker disabled as I am determined to use youtube ad free. Recently this configuration has led to youtube comments not appearing, the share button not working as well as some other things. Switching to the built in ad blocker does not improve the situation. Is anyone else running into these issues?

Thanks

I am logged into Waterfox all the time on my desktop and I want to copy my profile and then paste it into the Waterfox browser on a new laptop or be able to activate it. I cannot log into Waterfox on the laptop because I forgot my password due to the long time I have been logged in on the desktop. Do I need to log into Waterfox on the laptop in order to select my profile or can I transfer all my bookmarks and passwords to the laptop by copying my profile there from the desktop without logging in ? Thanks

Perhaps I'm mis-remembering, but didn't there used to be a button on mobile, 3 dots menu, install app to home? Did it get removed in an update?

This was not the case when I first downloaded. Just happened recently.

Android settings for background battery and data are disabled. Keep awake and run in background permissions denied via AppOps. ​About:config settings to turn off fission are also ignored. It even circumvents shizuku's hail & icebox automatically freeze when screen turns off. No tabs open, no extensions enabled, all sync settings disabled, and completely signed of the mozilla account.

Please refrain from the "let Android manage it" comments. This app is the #1 consumer of battery on my phone and I only use it for the occasional web search. I simply do not want this app to run non stop on my phone.

Pixel 7 pro, unrooted, and fully up to date.

UPDATE: I figured it out. WaterFox no longer runs in the background consuming battery.

Hi, I'm Jas!

For starters, I'm using the latest stable version of Waterfox 6.6.16 on Windows 11.

I'm a bit new to more private browsers eg FF forks like Waterfox, so I don't really know what I'm doing when it comes to browsers other than Chrome, but I'm very tech keen otherwise.

The issue at hand is that I'm unable to watch shows on eg HBO. I'm able to watch most stuff but when trying to watch on HBO I'm met with the error message provided in the screenshot in this post, and I don't know what to do??

Link to screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/X709p29

I've tried the following:
- toggling the hardware acceleration on and off
- restarting my PC
- restarting the browser itself
- recreated the issue on 2 different PC:s that were using all the same versions/setting and alike
- searched the web for answers from people who've had similar/the same experiences, all to no avail

Pls help 😵‍💫

Anyone seen any options for forcing Nordpass to recognize Waterfox as a browser on Android? I checked the settings, and I also checked to see if there was an extension which there was not. Oddly, it also doesn't see my Firefox install even though they're supposedly compatible.

Thanks much!

I'm kinda confused if DRM actually works with waterfox because anytime I go to website like crunchyroll there will be a bar on top saying installing components needed for video and audio but it never installs. when checking the add-ons manager Windevine and OpenH it says will install but doesn't? Is there a way to force it or anything? I have tried restarting the browser, I just updated it too.

It's exactly what the title says.

I use Waterfox mostly on pc but I also have it on my phone. However, I have to use it as a secondary browser because it normally kicks me out of the app and causes my phone to crash for a second.

My first thought was that it was conflicting with AdGuard, since I have the AdGuard extension installed on Waterfox as a precaution, as the AdGuard app usually disables itself if my Wi-Fi fails (which is common). Even after being disabled for a long time and with nothing else installed, it still happens out of nowhere.

Is this normal, or is my phone simply useless and doesn't support the app? (Sorry for the format, I'm using my phone)

Hi, loving Waterfox so far, but came across some things I was interested in talking about.

First - Waterfox for PC. My school uses Canvas/Instructure for their learning management system. When I go to post a discussion question response, I get this prompt. https://i.imgur.com/c1ZYvAu.png

Is this something that will be fixed in future versions? It's not a huge deal since it proceeds as normal when I click the button.

Second - Waterfox for Android tends to randomly run in active Memory even though I didn't open it. When I do use it, my phone settings are to completely close applications after exiting them, but it likes to nibble at the memory until I intentionally clear the Memory through Device Care. It seems to ignore the settings to completely close apps after exiting them. Is this normal?

Thanks!

I just wanted to highlight and tip my hat to Alex for doing his best to keep Waterfox alive with partnerships.

There are some opinions and criticism about Qwant, main one seems to be them defaulting to have AI results enabled by default.

I came across a mention on the latest Waterfox release notes which I think shows that Alex is listening to users and knows his users.

Attempts to force Qwant AI answers/summaries to disabled by default.

Key is attempts, which is admirable and I think aligns with what Waterfox is.

More importantly we need to remember that the scaffolding is Firefox so it is very easy to change and add search engines if you need to.

Add or remove a search engine in Waterfox

Manage my default search engines in Waterfox for Android

If you can donate considering doing so. I'm sure every little bit helps and is appreciated.

https://buymeacoffee.com/waterfox

I'm new to Waterfox (joined about 2 days ago) and overall, I'm enjoying my experience. However, sometimes the built in ad blocker doesn't block ads. YouTube ads still play from time to time, ads on other sites also are displayed from time to time. It might be an issue from my end, so what can I do about that?

Coming from Firefox, where I had uBlock Origin, which had a built-in "element picker" for easily blocking content. I never really used this except for on Steam, since the background image on game pages causes massive slowdown.

I was trying to figure out if there's something similar in Waterfox but haven't had much luck, and it keeps advising not installing uBlock Origin over/along the integrated ad blocker.

For clarification, this is all I had to add as filtered/blocked content to get Steam pages running smoothly again. Is there a way to just copy/paste this somewhere into Waterfox?

||shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/2677660/page_bg_raw.jpg?t=1778168392$image

||shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3768760/e8704084c7339af80e412057d6d02972aff81c79/page_bg_raw.jpg?t=1779991799$image

||shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/*/page_bg_raw.jpg*$image

Clearing Cookies seems to fix it, but that's annoying to do every time it stops working. It seems to be working fine on Firefox, but I also don't use Firefox as my main so I'm not sure if it would stop working.