Modern browsers have become operating systems. They want to manage your passwords, your news feed, your shopping lists, and your weather. An old version of Waterfox just wants to render HTML. It has one job, and it does it with the quiet dignity of a hammer. The real reason power users refuse to let go is the XUL Apocalypse . When Firefox dropped legacy extensions for WebExtensions in 2017, millions of useful, weird, hyper-specific add-ons died overnight.
Waterfox Classic is their Ark.
Every few months, a notification pops up in the corner of my screen: “A new version of Waterfox is available. Restart to update.” waterfox browser old version