BSD Ports

www/waterfox 6.7.6,1 FreeBSD

Distilled fork of Firefox

System
FreeBSD
Repository
FreeBSD ports
Maintainer
[email protected]
Last update
Commit
ea3ff13d8c
License
MPL20
Categories
www
Package size
85110.5 KiB, 361265.6 KiB installed

Description

Fast and Private Web Browser.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
FreeBSDwww/waterfox6.7.6,1
MidnightBSDwww/waterfox6.6.16.1,1
HardenedBSDwww/waterfox6.7.4,1
GhostBSDwww/waterfox6.7.3,1

Install

Binary package:

pkg install waterfox

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/www/waterfox/ && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	waterfox>0:www/waterfox

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repositoryaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386
FreeBSD:14:latest6.7.5,16.7.6,1---
FreeBSD:14:quarterly6.7.5,1-n/a--
FreeBSD:15:latest6.7.6,16.7.6,1n/a-6.6.1_1,1
FreeBSD:15:quarterly--n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:16:latest-6.7.6,1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:16:quarterlyn/an/an/an/an/a

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Build 15

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 169

The first 100 are listed.

Run dependencies 132

The first 100 are listed.

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

## Missing features

Some features found on Windows, macOS and Linux are not implemented:

- Encrypted Media Extensions (requires Widevine CDM binary)
- Process sandboxing (requires Capsicum backend)
- Reduced memory usage (requires mozjemalloc)
- Crash Reporter (requires Google Breakpad and reproducible builds)
- WebVR (requires open source runtime)
- TCP fast open
- `about:networking` (requires link state notification)

## Audio backend

Currently used audio backend can be inspected on `about:support` page.
Supported backends and default probing order is as follows:
- `pulse-rust` if `pulseaudio` package is installed (PULSEAUDIO option)
- `jack` if `jackit` package is installed (JACK option)
- `sndio` if `sndio` package is installed (SNDIO option)
- `alsa` if `alsa-lib` package is installed (ALSA option)
- `oss` (always available)
To force a specific backend open `about:config` page and create
`media.cubeb.backend` preference.

Microphone selection only works in `oss`, `pulse`, `pulse-rust` backends.
Other backends are limited to `default` which is usually `/dev/dsp`,
so use virtual_oss to reroute microphones from non-default devices.

## Gamepad API

Requires evdev(4) joystick support. On FreeBSD 13.0 enable hgame(4)
while older versions can use sysutils/iichid or multimedia/webcamd.

## smb:// issues
Network group, machine, and share browsing does not work correctly.

## sftp://
Only sftp access using public key authentication works. To easily
setup public key authentication to `remote_host`:

    $ ssh-keygen
    $ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh remote_host "cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys"

The SSH server on `remote_host` must allow pub key authentication.

Files

distinfo 2
FileSizeSHA256
BrowserWorks-waterfox-6.7.6_GH0.tar.gz1.053143807e+094e22515331adeb35714ea814661ef04db2d29d919b4e1649aede57d7b6caefbe
BrowserWorks-l10n-9bbefd5_GH0.tar.gz9.3406894e+07ab4d60ccee63c7c1d7061b9a654324778183a1f698739b834af7ffe1db5f8882

Commit history 12

DateCommitCreditsLog message
ea3ff13d8c Martin Filla www/waterfox: Update 6.7.5 => 6.7.6
Release Notes: https://www.waterfox.com/releases/6.7.6/ PR: 299492 Sponsored by: UNIS Labs (vvd, commit patch) MFH: 2026Q4
9c878207a1 Mikael Urankar lang/rust: Bump revisions after 1.99.0
PR: 299016
d05159827a Martin Filla www/waterfox: Update 6.7.4 => 6.7.5
Release Notes: https://www.waterfox.com/releases/6.7.5/ PR: 299081 Sponsored by: UNIS Labs (vvd, commit patch) MFH: 2026Q4
dbde4e02b6 Martin Filla www/waterfox: Update 6.7.3 => 6.7.4
Release Notes: https://www.waterfox.com/releases/6.7.4/ PR: 298816 Sponsored by: UNIS Labs (vvd, commit patch) MFH: 2026Q3
a06489e807 Vladimir Druzenko www/waterfox: Update 6.7.1.1 => 6.7.3
Release Notes: https://www.waterfox.com/releases/6.7.2/ https://www.waterfox.com/releases/6.7.3/ Changelog: https://github.com/BrowserWorks/waterfox/releases/tag/6.7.2 https://github.com/BrowserWorks/waterfox/releases/tag/6.7.3 PR: 298443 Approved by: Martin Filla <[email protected]> (maintainer) MFH: 2026Q3

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