Waterfox - worth using?

Soldato
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I've seen Waterfox mentioned a few times on here, thought I might check it out but I see it's still on version 18 whereas Firefox is at 21 now. Does this cause any problems with add-ons, plug-ins etc?

Is it actually noticeably faster than Firefox, or is it just that 'cnew install' feeling because it isn't yet bogged down with extensions and other files? I generally don't have any performance issues with Firefox, but it can seem to chug a bit at times which, on a Core i7 with 12GB of RAM, is rather ridiculous. It'd be nice if Waterfox solved that, but I don't want to end up using an out-of-date browser as a consequence.
 
Thanks all, I might give it a go at some point (I assume it doesn't interfere with Firefox at all) but can't see any immediate reason to switch over if the improvements aren't all that noticeable.
 
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