To me, it seems to just be a game of semantics, but I digress. However, in doing all of this, its goal was to be an 'ethical browser,' and you can reasonably argue that this makes it a privacy focused browser. Interestingly, Waterfox never took a definitive 'privacy browser stance.' While it did aim to strip Mozilla's telemetry and other somewhat questionably default features, Waterfox was primarily built for speed. Even Firefox, from which Waterfox was forked, only officially supported 32-bit back then.

Waterfox initially gained a lot of traction because, at the time, it was one of the only browsers available for 圆4 bit systems. While it has received contributions from multiple developers over the years, the main driving force for maintaining the project seemed to be the founder himself. Waterfox was a project started in 2011 by Alex Kontos. Nonexistent mobile support (this may be a con for some people).Still needs about:config tweaks found in Mozilla Firefox to be a more 'true' privacy browser.

Bought by analytics/adverising company, System1, which is the same company that bought search engine StartPage.

Waterfox classic 64 bit