It's the least botnet choice out of all of the mainstream browsers, and it has all of the functionality of Firefox ESR (which makes it better than obscure shit like Brave). Sure, the LibreJS shit is annoying, but that's only a matter of disabling two add-ons.
Why aren't you running GNU IceCat?
Nolan Fisher
Other urls found in this thread:
spyware.neocities.org
twitter.com
Connor Nguyen
Botnet
Hudson Allen
Explain.
Cooper Miller
the logo is pure trash
Jason Johnson
Andrew Lopez
It's not in portage
Hudson Baker
Eh?
Joshua Hughes
I'm trying to follow the sources but it's not going so well. Mind, I'm very surprised to see GNU stuff phoning home. Any idea what data it's sending?
Ryan Phillips
It's currently banned from Gentoo portage due to quality concerns
Brody Johnson
Every source that I can find about their reasoning is from 2014 or earlier. What's their current objection?
Kevin Butler
it's firefox based, which means it's dog slow and a piece of shit. it's just a 4th rate imitation of chromium at this point
Charles Jones
Icecat will be outdated in a few days and they're not ready ready for ESR 60 icecat.
Jeremiah Allen
It says right in the image.
gnuzilla.gnu.org/filters* is for adblocking (GNU IceCat comes with SpyBlock, a modified AdBlock Plus). How's it going to update those filters without "phoning home"?
detectportal.firefox.com is for captive portal detection
location.services.mozilla.com is for Mozilla Location Services
Connecting to search.services.mozilla.com gives "This service provides regional search settings for Firefox clients. For more on the code, please see github.com
shavar.services.mozilla.com seems to be realted to built-in tracking protection
safebrowsing.google.com is for blocking phishing and malicious sites
notification.adblockplus.org has something to do with SpyBlock (again it's based on AdBlock Plus)
Ryder Wilson
I meant the source for that info. Regardless, all of that seems pretty minor anyway.
Blake Howard
I've been using Firefox and/or stuff based on it since like 2008. I've never understood people who say that it's slow.
>chromium
Who cares? That's a far too botnet.
That's arguably a good thing. I'm going to wait as soon as possible before I move to Quantum, I want all of the kinks, including the lack of addons, to be worked out.
Oliver Hernandez
Because NakedBrowser is way better.
Saged.
Kevin Walker
No Wangblows builds
Adam Stewart
the logo is comfy and probably the best FOSS logo
Jayden Walker
>>I've been using Firefox and/or stuff based on it since like 2008. I've never understood people who say that it's slow.
have you even tried chromium to compare? chromium is fast enough to be usable on my celeron n3050 laptop, even with adblock installed. on the same laptop firefox is very noticeably slower
Ethan Brown
Never heard of it.
Aiden Scott
Once or twice, no noticeable difference for me.
Samuel Ward
>one big ad for ungoogled chromium
nice
Adrian Cooper
Source is link posted here but if you mean source files for GNU IceCat you'll have to download source code from the website, although I believe it uses the source code for Firefox and then uses patches/sed to change stuff.
Mason Johnson
>implying that you'll ever be sure that it's ungoogled
Sebastian Thompson
I mean the source for the info on that link. The link links to a source, but following that link doesn't seem to lead anywhere informative.
Ayden Baker
I will never use chrome based shit.
Ff isn't even slow unless you are using a shitty computer. I really hate chrome style, interface and botnet
Joshua Nguyen
It's not on 60 yet.
Robert Nelson
>i-implying it's not open source