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| From: | Thorsten Wilms |
| Subject: | Re: Packaging a free Firefox |
| Date: | Thu, 17 May 2018 10:21:34 +0200 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 |
On 17.05.2018 03:26, Mark H Weaver wrote:
Can you tell me specifically what is wrong with GNU IceCat that makes it unsuitable for you? It has been my primary browser for several years.
While that question wasn't addressed to me, my case was similar to what Katherine described, so here's my take on it:
Coming from latest Firefox, IceCat on GuixSD felt ridiculously slow. Hidden-HTML warnings and the LibreJS thing were unbearably annoying. I understand the reasoning behind LibreJS, but to me, personally, it is akin to fighting in a lost war instead of getting to the information I want here and now.
After disabling everything IceCat comes with, I found the replacement Add-on pages to be misdesigned for the context they appear in. I did not succeed in installing uMatrix, one of the few add-ons I care about.
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