See also: LibreWolf. I believe it’s more or less the same idea, but more up-to-date.
Does regular Firefox disrespect privacy in some ways, or is the fork just better for privacy due to the additional privacy protection features listed on that page?
Default Firefox is full of Google related options and iirc telemetry and studies is on by default. That can be annoying if one uses more than one FF profile. Of course you can manually change those settings or create a tweaked user.js or install Librewolf or Seamonkey or Firedragon or Icecat etc.
Normal Firefox is just worse by default, you can configure both to be almost identical
There’s the possibility of a hardened user.js, e.g. this one by pyllyukko on Github to set many of these configuration items in a more secure or privacy-respecting way.
That seems to do a lot! Would you recommend using that instead of hardening manually?
Everything is commented, so I’d go through the user.js once in a while and copy it to my own. I don’t use all of the settings.
I like IceCat (and the logo is so cute 💖 ). There is also Abrowser from the Trisquel GNU/Linux project. For me the best 100% free/libre Firefox fork. Includes its own Add-on site and a better user experience than IceCat.
Is there an APT external repository for IceCat?
Thank you cutie.
https://github.com/losuler/icecat/issues/created_by/EchedeyLR
I created these related issues.
Seems the maintainer is new on this.
There are some basic errors.
It’s very nice and all, but keep in mind that it was last updated two years ago, on June 2019.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git
The problem is the FTP, but the Git repository is up-to-date.
My bad then. In my defense, it’s not immediately apparent that the project is still being updated.
Guix provides a more up-to-date IceCat, but warns that “IceCat 78 has not yet been released by the upstream IceCat project. This is a preview release, and does not currently meet the privacy-respecting standards of the IceCat project.”
I had no idea this was still the case.
I like to use https://repology.org/ to check for package versions and its distribution. See for example for icecat but also seamonkey.
