Waterfox is an open-source web browser for x64, ARM64, and PPC64LE systems, "intended to be speedy and ethical, and maintain support for legacy extensions dropped by Firefox, from which it is forked," according to Wikipedia . (Its tabs also still have angled sides with rounded corners.)Friday Waterfox's original creator, 24-year-old Alexandros Kontos, announced that the browser "now has funding and a development team, so Waterfox can finally start to grow!" after its acquisition by a company called System1 "Now I can finally focus on making Waterfox into a viable alternative to the big browsers," Kontos concludes.Long-time Slashdot reader Freshly Exhumed contextualized the news with this brief history of the alternate browser ecosystem: