[ale] Alternative builds of Firefox besides Iceweasel?

[Jim Kinney]

The LibreJS won't work for several things at work (all proprietary crap
- duh!) but none of those pages seemed to be breaking firefox. I'm
looking at icecat for everywhere _but_ internal work pages. I've not
tested the add-ons I use (spice, the VPN tool).
On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 10:38 -0400, Ted W. wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 06:54:27PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > 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 . 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
> > 
> I am using Debian 8 at home and RHEL6 at work.
> 
> I'm trying out Icecat now after Jim's suggestion. It looks more like
> the
> Firefox I'm used to. It looks like they've frozen it back at 31.8, a
> bit
> before the latest ESR release. I'm curious if they've frozen it and
> just
> backport security fixes or if they're just behind the 8-ball, so to
> speak because of resource constraints.
> 
> Overall I'm pretty happy with Icecat, though the libreJS thing can
> kind
> of be a pain. I may see about swapping that out (even though I run
> with
> No-Script on for 99% of the sites I go to, that 1% seems to be using
> "non-free" JS).
-- 
James P. Kinney III

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gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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