Waterfox

This post was originally published on golifelog.com.

I was at the nearby coworking space today to have a chat with friends, and interestingly, there was a small hackathon ongoing. They tried to reverse engineer a small electrical darts board but failed in the end. But that’s not the topic for today.

On one of the coworkers, I saw an interesting-looking app. It turned out to be a privacy focused browser based on Firefox. What caught me was the sleek interface. No fancy (and large) tab bar above, but a side menu with tabs, nice-looking tab groups (I tend to have several open all the time for home automation and freelance stuff).

Since I switched from Google passwords long ago to 1Password, I thought I’d give it a try. And to be honest, so far I’m quite intrigued. The side tabs are quite a change, but I really like it, especially since I’m mostly working on a 32-inch 4k display. It also has different profiles (similar to Chrome and “base” Firefox), but there is another quite interesting feature: “environments”. It looks like tabs in the same environment share their cookies and stuff, but other environments don’t. So I can be logged into YouTube, for example, in one tab with my private account and in another with my Let’s Play one.

I’ll give it a try over the next couple of days, but as of now, it might become my default browser.