Browsers can be tweaked anyway you like, and extensions or plugins change behavior drastically. Whether IceCat/IceWeasel really is better (more secure, guarding privacy) is difficult to prove. If security is important to you, do everything you can and know to keep that sense of secuirty. I think this is rather subjective, you pick a browser that you like. Possible in Android to visit a non-mobile version of a website.īut if I disable LibreJS (since it breaks on a lot of websites), would there still be any benefit to using IceCat over other browsers? ie, SeaMonkey or Firefox with adBlock plus+noscript? Non-mobile user agent string for a desired domain would make it IceCat also has functionaity to set a different user agent string eachįor different domains in about:config. The GNU LibreJS extension detects and blocks nonfree nontrivial In version 3.0.2-g1, the certificate of, a certificateĪuthority, has been added to the list of trusted root certificates.Ĭoncern about that decision has been raised in aĭiscussion on the savannah-hackers-public mailing list. GNU IceCat also provides warnings for URL redirection. IceCat includes additional security features, such as the option toīlock third party zero-length image files resulting in third partyĬookies, also known as web bugs (This feature is available inįirefox 1.0, 1.5, and 3.0, but the UI option was absent on 2.0). IceCat browser says it offers additional privacy and security features.
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