![]() ![]() The biggest difference most users will see between Firefox and Waterfox (installed or portable) is the deep-blue Waterfox Start button and blue logo. Waterfox automatically imported our user data from our existing Firefox installation. If you open Waterfox and then open Firefox, the pages will open in Waterfox, and vice versa: If we had Firefox open, clicking the Waterfox icon opened a new page in Firefox (which is why we tried Waterfox with and without Firefox installed). Other than that, Waterfox looks and behaves exactly like what it is, Firefox with some fancy tuning under the hood. We ran numerous bandwidth speed tests on Waterfox Portable, the installed Waterfox, Firefox 18, Internet Explorer 9 32-bit and 64-bit, Opera, and Google Chrome. Both the installed and portable versions of Waterfox loaded quickly and were very similar to the others in performance, though none dethroned the reigning speed champ, Chrome. Waterfox is optimized for 64-bit systems (and has no x86 build), and claims to be the fastest 64-bit variant of the Firefox browser. The installed Waterfox clearly bested the portable version, which has been our experience with portable browsers. ![]() Major plugins such as Adobe Flash, Sun Java, Microsoft Silverlight all have supported 64-Bit binaries available, and will work with Waterfox just as they would with Firefox. But both Waterfox versions seemed fast and stable in actual browsing. Of course, all the major Web browsers perform quite well in most conditions we suggest trying each of them since they're all free. But if you want an up-to-date, fully portable 64-bit browser, Waterfox Portable is the obvious choice. ![]()
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