Dear WeatherCat web surfers,
I wanted to update everyone on this experiment I had made. I had noticed that not too long ago, Firefox discontinued 32-bit support for the Mac. I didn't have a chance to look into this until today, but finally I checked and sure enough Firefox is now a 64-bit application. As a result, it seems to be every bit as fast as Waterfox once was.
The Waterfox project continues, but I'm at a loss as to what it's intentions are. Since I don't like open source projects that become a nest of competitors, I've decided to return to Firefox for the moment. There is potentially one reason to use Waterfox, it has removed the instrumentation that sends data to the Mozilla project. If you are concerned about your privacy to the point you don't even trust the Mozilla foundation, that is one reason to use Waterfox.
I'll try to keep an eye on this project to see where it ends up. It is still being actively supported and has kept up with the Firefox releases. So it does appear to a viable alternative to Firefox. I just don't see the point of this fork at the moment.
Cheers, Edouard