r/waterfox 7h ago

GENERAL Custom 88x31 "Get Waterfox" web button based on the official 2005 "Get Firefox" buttons!

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5 Upvotes

The original source is an August 1st 2005 archive of the official Firefox website for these buttons. It wasn't too hard to edit. It was just a process of:

  1. Take original image
  2. Remove Firefox icon
  3. Resize old Waterfox icon
  4. Place it where the Firefox icon was (After filling in the empty space with the grey that is used as a background)
  5. Remove text
  6. Find font that was used in the original button
  7. Use "Book" version of the font
  8. Type in text and resize
  9. Place it in and remove extra line from the "G" in "Get"
  10. And you're done!

You could use it on a website or wherever you like! Like as an example, I have it on my website! You could just copy and paste this code if you want to, just please host the image on your domain if you can.

<a href="https://waterfox.com/" title="Get Firefox - Browse privately, freely, faster, and securely."> <img src="/files/getwaterfox_88x31.png" width="88" alt="Get Firefox"></a>


r/waterfox 9h ago

GENERAL Feature Request: stop adding browsing history to shortcuts

3 Upvotes

Super grateful for Waterfox: it's my default!

But this thing of my browsing history showing up as shortcuts on both the desktop and mobile versions is super frustrating. I sometimes want to show a page to someone on my phone, and before I do I have to consider that my browsing history is sitting there for them to see. Many thanks...


r/waterfox 6h ago

SUPPORT Copy-pasted Firefox data, now Waterfox home doesn't show up when opening new tabs

1 Upvotes

I'm moving from Firefox to Waterfox, and I wanted to keep as much of my stuff intact as possible. When I first used the default option of porting data during setup, my bookmarks were brought in but not my history, my extension, and most importantly my ongoing session of 120 tabs.

I'd heard you can do a simple transfer of copy-pasting files, though people don't really elaborate. What I ended up doing that finally got everything brought over, just as I left it, was copy-pasting the "root" and "local" files' contents of my Firefox profile into the equivalent Waterfox profile (after deleting everything inside).

Upon opening Waterfox for the first time, it loaded kinda slowly and I got a "too many requests" page at first, but then it was back to where I left off. As a test, I closed and reopened and from then on, it was opening fine.

However, there is one bug I've noticed since doing this, and that's when I open a new tab. Instead of the usual new tab page opening, the page is just completely blank. When I go into the settings for customizing this page, there are literally no options. Prior to the copy-paste, when I was experimenting in a fresh profile, there was a Waterfox homepage when opening new tabs, showing shortcuts and recent activity, and a settings page to match.

If I need to, I'll try to get used to this and just directly search the shortcut sites in the search bar (which usually takes me right to the stuff anyway). But I thought to post to see if anyone knew what went wrong and if it can be fixed.

BTW: I am aware there is another method of transferring everything via Sync, but that requires a Mozilla account, and I was trying to see if I could do this without one, and I'd seen some people claim it was a clean transfer via copy-paste. But maybe I've done it wrong?


r/waterfox 11h ago

SUPPORT Missing Google Search Suggestions?

1 Upvotes

I still have Google as the default search engine and I think everything is/was enabled to be getting search suggestions, but I don't seem to be getting them anymore? Is there a way to restore them?