Waterfox comes in two ‘flavors’: Waterfox and Waterfox-Classic. You can download them from https://www.waterfox.net/download and https://classic.waterfox.net/ respectively. They are portable, you can locate them anywhere. Both packages are in tar.bz2 format, extractable using such applications as UExtract. In the extracted-folder will be ones named Waterfox. Move it where ever you want.
The difference between them is that Waterfox is based (frequently updated) on the latest firefox-quantum, while Waterfox-Classic (like palemoon) is based on pre-quantum firefox. The publisher of Waterfox-Classic reminds you that system has security issues and which remain unresolved. [Puppys, however, have long had many techniques for preventing security breaches regardless of what Web-browser you use].
Waterfox can use the current addons for firefox-quantum. Just open it to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/. You can install the ‘Classic Add-ons’ addon into Waterfox-Classic from here, https://github.com/JustOff/ca-archive then experiment to find out which of the thousand of versions of addons will work. This Screenshot shows my short list which do.
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Like all ‘mozilla’ products straight from the manufacturer (and built to expect pulse-audio to be a part of your operating system) Puppys (where they aren’t) can’t generate sound. But fredx181 figured out a way for such browsers to use audio libraries. MikeWalsh uses that system in his portables, and I’ve provided a package several time. Just follow the instructions here, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... 470#p42470, except DON’T copy the included script.
Attached are two for Waterfox: two because the next attachment will create two menu entries; one for general browsing and the other for securely accessing financial websites. “Two for the price of one; just pay the additional shipping costs”. You will have to decide what themes, addons and configurations you want for each. Or file-browse into /usr/share/applications and delete the desktop file for one.
Download the Start-Waterfox-scripts.tar.gz, extract it and copy/move its contents into your Waterfox folder.
Download and install the Waterfox_portable-menu.pet and install it. https://www.mediafire.com/file/uy5pubks ... u.pet/file
There’s two more things you’ll have to do, edit both the bash-scripts the pet will install to /root/my-applications/bin. Neither provides the actual path to your Waterfox folder. You’ll have to open them in a text editor and provide that path. For example, the script for Waterfox-Secured now reads:
exec /PATH-TO-WATERFOX-FOLDER/wfs "$@"
Change the colored portion to identify the actual location.