15 Sep
2020
15 Sep
'20
11:51 a.m.
On Tuesday 15 September 2020 04:37:55 E. Liddell via tde-users wrote:
Not so! True, it does look pretty much the same, and to the untrained
eye, they are about equal. After having used a lot of Mozilla browsers, I
can tell you for sure that Icecat offers some major differences.
They say right out on their own site:
"IceCat is generated from Firefox with the scripts available in the Git
repository of GNUzilla."
Ergo, Firefox with some patches and possibly bundled extensions. Most
distros without Debian ancestry don't even package it.
I don't argue that point. What I mean is, those little differences make all
the difference. You don't need to believe or disbelieve me; check it out for
yourself, by watching your network traffic, by watching the requests made by
your browser, just because you click on a tab or scroll through a page.
On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 18:36:39 -0700
"William Morder via trinity-users"
<trinity-users(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net> wrote:
> On Monday 14 September 2020 18:22:35 E. Liddell
wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 08:01:40 -0700
> >
> > William Morder via tde-users <ml-migration-agent(a)trinitydesktop.org>
wrote:
On a side
note, I wonder if we could get a proper, working,
up-to-date version of icecat into the repositories somewhere (as it
has disappeared from Trisquel and others).
Why? It's just a rebrand of Firefox with a few trivial patches, as far
as I know. If you find Firefox itself unsatisfactory, try one of the
other forks/cousins from the Mozilla family (Pale Moon, Waterfox, or
Seamonkey). E. Liddell
Some years ago, I got into a dispute with somebody who refused to believe that
using javascript would reveal all your system information. The large social
network that he was using required javascript, as a new policy. As I said
then, you don't need to believe me, just use an IP checker page.
Same thing here: If you don't believe me, then just try what I say, and you
might change your mind, or at least decide that I am not totally bonkers.
No matter. If you are content with what you have, then shine on.
Bill