Waterfox™ portable

• Notice of Non-Affiliation and Disclaimer
• About
• Installation
  • Upgrade
• Infos
  • Modifications
  • Configuration
  • Policies
• Known issues
• Download

Notice of Non-Affiliation and Disclaimer

Portapps is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with Waterfox™, or any of its subsidiaries or its affiliates.

The official Waterfox™ website can be found at https://www.waterfox.net/.

The name Waterfox™ as well as related names, marks, emblems and images are registered trademarks of their respective owners.

About

Waterfox™ portable app made with Portapps.
An open-source web browser intended to be speedy, ethical and maintain support for legacy extensions

Installation

Download and install the latest portable setup where you want then run waterfox-portable.exe.

If you have already installed Waterfox™ from the original setup, move the following files :

• %APPDATA%\Waterfox\Profiles\*.default\* to data\profile\default

Then run waterfox-portable.exe and remove Waterfox™ from your computer.

Upgrade

For an upgrade, simply download and install the latest portable setup.

Infos

Modifications

Some modifications have been made through policies to ensure portability:

• Disable updater : Waterfox updates are turned off.
• Don’t check default browser : Stops Waterfox from checking if it is the default browser at startup.
• ‘Know your rights’: Don’t show on first run.
• WhatsNew: Don’t show WhatsNew on first run after every update.
• Profile: Profile path is overrided to data\profile folder (see below).
• A shortcut is created at launch to allow native notifications and removed when Waterfox is closed

Configuration

Waterfox™ portable can be configured through the main YAML configuration file:

app:
  profile: default
  multiple_instances: false
  cleanup: false

• profile : Name of the profile created in data\profile\<name> (default default)
• multiple_instances : Allow multiple instances (default false)
• cleanup : Cleanup leftover folders (default false)

Policies

You can use custom policies by creating data/policies.json file like this one:

{
  "policies": {
    "DisableFirefoxStudies": true,
    "DisableTelemetry": true
  }
}

DisableAppUpdate and DontCheckDefaultBrowser are forced to true.

Known issues

There is no known issues Please let us know if you found one!

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