Once I realised that loads of people started using it, I decided I could get more performance out of it, make some modifications here and there.
First I just compiled a 64-bit version and that was it. Taking full advantage of Mozilla’s open-source code to create internet software, Waterfox was born, a high-performance browser aimed at 64-bit computers. A lot of programs were still 32-bit and not many cared about supporting 64-bit.” “Windows 7 had just been out for a year or two and that really pushed forward 64-bit operating systems. “I found that a lot of software wasn’t really taking advantage of the hardware,” Kontos tells me. So how did it all start for Alex? You have to go back to the early days of Windows 7 and a time when 64-bit programs were still in their infancy. It’s a search engine powered by Yahoo that makes your privacy a priority and even donates a cut of your online purchases to charity. Now still in his early twenties and splitting his time between studying and developing, Kontos is setting his sights on Google with his latest venture called Storm. Around the same time he decided to develop Waterfox, a 64-bit web browser which was built in a month and has already surpassed four million downloads. When Alex Kontos was 16, he was trying to do things like overclock his laptop. In a week where we celebrate the best of the British technology industry, we speak to young developer Alex Kontos about building a successful web browser, a search engine that gives money to charity, Microsoft Edge and more
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