

* AboutIceCat: Adds a custom "about:icecat" homepage with links to information about the free software and privacy features in IceCat, and checkboxes to enable and disable the ones more prone to break websites. Heres a reason you can find so many memes about Chrome eating memory. In the question What are the best desktop web browsers GNU IceCat is ranked 4th while Mozilla Firefox is ranked 10th. The main ones are GNUs IceCat (a fork), Waterfox, Comodo IceDragon, and Tor.
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While the Firefox source code from the Mozilla project is free software, they distribute and recommend nonfree software as plug-ins and addons. Its main advantage is an ethical one: it is entirely free software.

* SpyBlock: Blocks privacy trackers while in normal browsing mode, and all third party requests when in private browsing mode. When comparing Mozilla Firefox vs GNU IceCat, the Slant community recommends GNU IceCat for most people. GNUzilla is the GNU version of the Mozilla suite, and GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser. * Https-Everywhere: Extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure. Privacy protection features include: * LibreJS: GNU LibreJS aims to address the JavaScript problem described in Richard Stallman's article The JavaScript Trap. Youll quickly be reminded that its God send.

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Also their trademark license restricts distribution in several ways incompatible with freedom. Well, if youll compare it between: Firefox (usable, but full of crap) GNU IceCat (absolutely unusable). While the Firefox source code from the Mozilla project is free software, they distribute and recommend non-free software as plug-ins and addons. Actually I have seen this last Falkon release being called as “Falkon 2021”.GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser. Taking a look at its slow development, we can see the last commit to the browser was made on 23 August & the last commit to the Qtwebenging just a day ago!! And since it uses QtWebEngine, the rendering engine and JS interpreter are constantly updated upstream.Īfter all, neither Qupzilla nor Falkon are known for frequent updates. It’s not under particularly active development, but there’ve been various fixes and tweaks over the last few months. What is the real advantage to using Pale Moon IceCat is more security oriented and has https everywhere, ad and tracker blockers built in.

While the Firefox source code from the Mozilla project is free software, they distribute and. This is a miss-understanding on how KDE technologies work. Its main advantage is an ethical one: it is entirely free software. It supports QwebEngine which is the actual browser engine by Qt, based on Blink. Yes, there are concerns about the project being abandoned, but Falkon, in my understanding & info taken from Reddit discussions, is not. Like The Linux Experinent, all I want is a snappy browser & preferably not Chromium or Gecko based, simple (but not barebones), with a good performance & low resources usage. Compare price, features, and reviews of the software side-by-side to make the best choice for your business. The practical result of those extensions is a. What happened I disable all security measures to block anything on the webpage. Mozilla Firefox using this comparison chart. The GNU IceCat web browser is a re-branded Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release version with slightly different more privacy-respecting defaults, different graphics and branding, some additionally really strange bugs and a hand-full of bundled extensions meant to provide more end-user freedom. I'm not terribly knowledgeable about Firefox and IceCat I'm just a user. mozilla/icecat, which would of course have no effect, because you would still have to choose the Firefox profile rather than the already existing IceCat profile. Having FF as my secondary & while taking occasional strolls with Chromium & Vivaldi (having adopted the principal “different browsers for different tasks”). After replacing GNU IceCat with Firefox, Banano PowerPlant no longer works. For all I know, you might have just merged the contents of. It still temains my primary browser to this day. As a hard core plasma user, I started experimenting with Qupzilla (rebranded as Falkon nowadays under the KDE umbrella) long ago.
