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I didn't said that but I agree with him, iceCat has been there for a while and it's a good alternative if you like firefox, you're concern about privacy and all that stuff and you don't know much about compiling source code or patching firefox (That's my case), please if you can. The efforts of the GNU team with the Debian team for a better freeīrowser that will get more attention in all the Debian-based distributions.' Now, no one can predict what will happen in the future) and will join It's also worth noting thatĪdopting Icecat as the default browser in Debian would avoid anyĬonflict with Mozilla in the future (although they appear to be solved There is no telemetry enabled by default. Icecat's additional features over FirefoxĪre all opt-in, so anyone who don't want them will have no problem, and This is the browser Debian should have used all these Icecat isĪbsolutely a package to have in Debian, and it's more in line with DFSG

If it were up to me, I'd go with FireFox and whatever plugin(s) providing additional features.Date: Sun, 00:50:59 +0000 'I'm shocked no one packaged Icecat after all these years. There is much more that seperates the two (extensions, layouts, settings.). IceCat and Firefox are not as close as, say Chromium and Google Chrome. I've had numerous reports of invalid certificates while other browsers (which trust on the OS) worked fine. However in practice it can bite you back.

The internal certificate store seems neat, and from a distance it may give the impression security is taken serious.

Additional security features have been backported to FireFox as well, such as zero-images.

IceCats unique selling point is that it is an ethical browser and is. Navegadores Web Libres: Mozilla Application Suite, Konqueror, Lynx, Links, Galeon, Amaya, Google Chrome, Camino, Iceweasel, Flock, Gnu Icecat by Fuente.

In my experience, FireFox is somewhat faster and the lastest versions are much better with memory management. Iceweasel is basically Firefox but with a different name and logo mainly because.

#Icecat iceweasel update#

This is not per se a security problem, but it takes a few update cycles for (HTML5) features to roll in.

IceCat is always a few steps behind FireFox.

#Icecat iceweasel free#

To answer your question, and like I said, this is rather personal, but I don't think IceCat will give you any benefit, or you must really like free software. I am sure you can create a similar setup to how IceCat is configured by default, which for example FireFox. Browsers can be tweaked anyway you like, and extensions or plugins change behavior drastically. Whether IceCat/IceWeasel really is better (more secure, guarding privacy) is difficult to prove. If security is important to you, do everything you can and know to keep that sense of secuirty. I think this is rather subjective, you pick a browser that you like. It is part of GNUzilla application suite which is GNU version of Mozilla application suite. It is basically a derivation from Mozilla firefox but its source code is distributed free of cost and users don’t need to pay for addons or plugins.

#Icecat iceweasel android#

Possible in Android to visit a non-mobile version of a website.īut if I disable LibreJS (since it breaks on a lot of websites), would there still be any benefit to using IceCat over other browsers? ie, SeaMonkey or Firefox with adBlock plus+noscript? GNU IceCat is an open source, free, Firefox look-alike browser. Non-mobile user agent string for a desired domain would make it IceCat also has functionaity to set a different user agent string eachįor different domains in about:config. The GNU LibreJS extension detects and blocks nonfree nontrivial In version 3.0.2-g1, the certificate of, a certificateĪuthority, has been added to the list of trusted root certificates.Ĭoncern about that decision has been raised in aĭiscussion on the savannah-hackers-public mailing list. GNU IceCat also provides warnings for URL redirection. IceCat includes additional security features, such as the option toīlock third party zero-length image files resulting in third partyĬookies, also known as web bugs (This feature is available inįirefox 1.0, 1.5, and 3.0, but the UI option was absent on 2.0). IceCat browser says it offers additional privacy and security features.