Waterfox – A fast browser

Before we give this the traditional Hacker News baptism by fire, keep in mind that this is apparently just one guy's project, and he's very junior: Waterfox was started back in March 2011 by Alex Kontos, a then 16 year old student. He had a fascination for the web and wanted to help expand on the ideals of what Mozilla had for a free and open web. Be constructive, not snarky.

Huh, didn't expect to see this on here again! Just before I continue I'd like everyone to know I have complete respect for Mozilla and everything they have achieved with Firefox in v57! It really is awesome and a testament to their engineering talent. I used to submit patches to them to get the code base compiled with Intel's C++ compiler and they really are great in communicating with you and even going out of their way to fix obscure…

The source does not seem to be available, and the only additional features mentioned (i.e. built with Intel's compiler and added "some extra features to really stand out") do not justify running unknown code on my machine. As far as I know the figure of 3,000,000 could be completely fake and the binary could contain malware. The benchmark graphs are completely misguided---I believe he should be using a bar chart for the first and no graph at all for the…