A large amount of changes, including many performance improvements and security updates.

What’s new in Waterfox 56.2.0?

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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories patched: 2018-11 2018-10

General Desktop Remove Google Play Services from Android (will now be able to add to F-Droid!) Stylo is now built, but disabled by default. Rust components are now built with optimisations. Updated various media codecs. Back ported performance improvements for JavaScript (should now stop the high CPU usage!) Tested a new way to keep Waterfox components up to date with the release branch of Firefox (includes security and performance upgrades for the components): Freetype2 Skia svg.context-properties.content.enabled is now true by default. Fingerprint option now disguises Waterfox as Firefox 60.

Linux Support for ffmpeg-4.0



Downloads now take you to a proper downloads page, with Portable download link fixed!

Downloads archive will also be on this page (just re-uploading it all)

Big thank you to the following contributors for this release:

Toromino - Jan Beich - laniakea64 - Graham Perrin - Peacock365

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