[ale] Alternative builds of Firefox besides Iceweasel?

[Steve Litt]

On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 15:36:39 -0400
"Ted W." <ted-lists at xy0.org> wrote:

> I have become increasingly annoyed with Mozilla's stance on what
> browsers should and should not do for their users. I understand their
> points but I don't want MY browser forcing my plugins to be signed (I
> have several plugins I prefer to build from source). I don't want MY
> browser rejected bad SSL if it's SHA-1 and I don't want MY browser
> preventing me from running things like Java when it's not up to date.
> I miss the days when my browser did what I told it to do and didn't
> try to protect me from the bad out there </s>. Sometimes I just want
> my browser to expect me to know that I've got things configured a
> certain way and that I want them to work like that rather than
> assuming certain things are misconfigurations. An example of this is
> a KVM switch we have at the office that requires a terribly old
> version of Java to use the web console and uses an old SHA-1
> certificate. I have a Firefox installation specifically configured to
> use this page which has the self signed certificate trusted and the
> right version of Java. But I can't use it anymore because the
> certificate is SHA-1 and Firefox won't run the insecure version of
> Java.
> 
> There have got to be some alternative builds of Firefox out there
> created by people in similar situations. If not, then are there other
> browser options out there which will "just work" (tm) like the Firefox
> of old?
> 

I'm curious: What distro are you using?

SteveT

Steve Litt 
August 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust