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user.js -- Firefox configuration hardening
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Review and merge Icecat setting toggles? #58

Closed nodiscc closed 7 years ago

nodiscc commented 8 years ago

Hi, I was reading https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ and found out it has a special about:icecat page

Adds a custom "about:icecat" homepage with links to information about the free software and privacy features in IceCat, and checkboxes to enable and disable the ones more prone to break websites.

Since people tend to recommend Icecat as a countermeasure to Firefox/Mozilla's recent "misbehaviour", and that Icecat is an outdated, low-workforce fork of Firefox which seems to only bring preinstalled addons and config changes, I think reasonable Free Software oriented distributions could simply distribute FF with an altered default config like this user.js. I have started working on a more "relaxed" preferences set in https://github.com/nodiscc/user.js/commits/dbu and I wish we could convice the Debian project to distribute this by default - there are several open bug requests on the Debian BTS for similar issues.

I am still curious whether Icecat has something more to offer; would an Icecat user please copy-paste the settings found in about:icecat here?

This would allow working on privacy/security/FOSS-oriented settings that user.js may be missing. The about:icecat is also similar to the request in https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/issues/25.

berrythesoftwarecodeprogrammar commented 8 years ago

ive suggested this before in another thread too. i really think that firefox customized with user.js and some other addons is a lot better than any of the forks because theyre always so outdated and have many issues. its not hard to disable all the privacy/security/feature issues which come with firefox

Atavic commented 7 years ago

about:icecat is a page with links to information about the free software and privacy features in IceCat, and checkboxes to enable and disable the ones more prone to break websites. You can toggle the addons included in Icecat, as:

Block execution of non-free JavaScript Block privacy trackers with Easylist in Adblockplus Use Tor when in Private Mode Use https-everywhere Request pages in English Use system fonts

pyllyukko commented 7 years ago

I am still curious whether Icecat has something more to offer; would an Icecat user please copy-paste the settings found in about:icecat here?

I installed IceCat (45.5.1) and about:icecat is nowhere to be found. You get the regular "The address isn't valid" error. about:home does work and is the default homepage, but it only contains a search bar as seen here:

icecat

pyllyukko commented 7 years ago

Also the IceCat tour link from the help menu is full of nothing.

pyllyukko commented 7 years ago

So it was a dead end. I'm closing this now. Feel free to re-open if the need arises.