What is the best Firefox fork, and why is it GNU IceCat?
What is the best Firefox fork, and why is it GNU IceCat?
Thomas Fisher
Parker Phillips
it's blue and cute, op is right
Jace Brown
I use waterfox just because it werks.
Also not needing to change a bunch of settings on each install is nice.
Hudson Jenkins
I been thinking to drop ff and start using icecat.
Does sync work? What about security updates?
Do i need to know something else?
Oliver Thomas
Why should I use this over firefox?
Lucas Garcia
>why is it GNU IceCat?
1. it's cute
2. it's committed to being free software only like ungoogled-chromium
3. doesn't bow to stuff like digital restrictions management
Ethan Rivera
This with no cookies ,no history , no newtab page and no cache at all
Aaron Wright
I like Quantum quite a bit. Is there a fork that is v57 or higher?
Caleb King
Yeah, latest version of IceCat.
Benjamin Cook
Hyperbola maintains an Iceweasel hard fork that uses UXP instead of WebExtensions. Apparently WebExtensions pose a security risk over XUL Extensions for some reason. If PaleMoon ever seriously shit the bed I'd consider using that instead. Hyperbola seems nice overall but Arch-derivatives have the AIDS, but at least you can download individual projects from their git repo.
Dominic Ross
current version of ciecat uses Friefox esr which is firefox 60 if i remember correctly.
Eli Young
Citation needed
William Moore
Elijah Cruz
>GNU IceCat
is it free as in freedom?
Jacob Lopez
Yes.
Do you legit think RMS would approve something not libre to be called GNU?
Evan King
is it secure tho
Andrew Ward
That's nonsense. Webextensions are safer than XUL extensions. XUL extensions are so amazing because they can do just about anything. Webextensions are sandboxed and limited in comparison.
Andrew Gray
there is no good fork. But if you put a gun to my head, palemoon, at least its trying to preserve an older design that isn't faggy.
Juan Thompson
i think seamonkey is the best, precisely beause it isnt a fork, but because it is the original vision of the browser, directly from mozilla, upd to date, without any of the anti-features they have added in desperate attempts to gain users and revenue.
Noah Nguyen
tfw seamonkey isn't in void's repos, feels bad
Christopher Jenkins
I predict microsoft will open source edge and then that will be better than even chrome.
Camden Edwards
Why no cache?
Joshua James
Today OP was a pretty nice guy.
spyware.neocities.org
Kevin Flores
Fireforks are autistic and useless
Stop shilling your shitty neocities website that looks like I made it in grade 7
Evan Hall
>he doesn't know how the web looked like before the normies entered it
found the zoomer
Adam Wilson
Right it no longer looks like that for a reason
You don't have to use tons of JS cancer and shit to make a website that doesn't make me want to pry out my eyeballs
Wyatt Reed
> Current year
> Using Firecucks or Firecuck forks
Use Brave or Vivaldi you dumb cucks
Brandon Morales
that's a big dick
Daniel Bennett
>Brave
>Vivaldi
Just say, "use Google Chrome", it's the same shit.
Lincoln Perez
B-but muh different skins!
Michael Bell
Blink based browsers are much better. Everything will be broken on non-blink based browsers eventually as Chrome has the most marketshare.
Ayden Garcia
I'll switch once that actually happens.
Austin King
S T I L L not in portage
Lincoln Anderson
>"Everything will be broken on non-blink based browsers eventually"
>unironically using "web apps"
Jason Turner
>while IceCat has always cared about it - but only in the new version (60.2) has finally removed all spyware
wew lad
Anthony Davis
web "apps"
Colton Parker
>retarded ancom neocities site
Brayden Foster
BASED and icepilled
Sebastian Taylor
How is IceCat with add-on compatibility? I tried using Pale Meme for a while but it took a “fuck add-ones even though thats the main reason people liked Firefox so much in the first place” approach
Noah Lee
Isaac Price
icecat is slow and buggy
that one's buggy also
Daniel Richardson
I like Waterfox so I haven't switched
Isaiah Howard
Slow, very slow, pages look like shit. It can't even properly load the official FSF website, it sort of skips most of the css.
Why does it get so much praise? Is there a setting or something to make it work as fast and normal as ungoogled chromium?
Easton Carter
is free
Evan Wood
It's fully compatible with anything that works on the current FF stable
Kayden Foster
Yeah disable LibreJS.
Alexander Ross
I'm looking to ditch Firefox soon, should I use Icecat or Ungoogled Chromium? Only extensions I care about are Ubo/Umatrix and https everywhere if that matters.
Blake Hill
yea it's actually better than majority of websites today.
Christopher Powell
>t. butthurt yahoo exec
Chase Ortiz
gnu/icecat
Ian Bennett
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