In Pictures: Firefox Faceoff - Nightly vs. Pale Moon vs. Waterfox

Waterfox: The developers of Waterfox claim their 64-bit spin on Firefox is the fastest. It’s built on the Version 9.0 stable release of Firefox. As of Jan. 7, Waterfox became the de facto “unofficial official” 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows 64-bit when it became a project accepted by Mozilla. After installing it, we got a system error when trying to run Waterfox for the first time: “The program can’t start because MSVCR100.dll is missing...” The FAQs on the Waterfox site lists the solution, which requires installing Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64). This seems a bit odd since neither Nightly nor Pale Moon required this. Once we plugged in this package, Waterfox then loaded without a problem.