Just found by accident a great keyboard shortcut in the Brave browser, firefox & IceCat.
Ctrl-Shift+Del will open the "delete browsing data" dialog.
Never knew this before (I'm sure others did) but it's really cool!
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My recent post regarding #icecat browser extensions getting disabled has resolved itself. Not sure how though.
No changes made.......but all working now. It was really bad to happen and shows that even more things are beyond our own control and always rely on something behind the scenes to function.
At least it's working now.
#tech
#browser
#firefox
#privacy
#addons
#gnu
#foss
#IceCat extensions disabled because they're not verified?!!
WTF is this BS?!
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Thanx for that article on browsers!
https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/03/what-if-anything-should-i-do-about-using-mozillas-firefox/
I had been using IceCat until there were no more updates, apparently the result of Firefox changing some fundamental APIs either in the rendering engine or the plug-in system. I didn't realize that IceCat was still being maintained in source code. Now Imma have to do some downloading and compiling...
neilzone.co.ukWhat, if anything, should I do about using Mozilla's Firefox
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[blog] Quitter Firefox
Voilà un article que je n'aurai jamais cru écrire : comment quitter Firefox. La page dédiée au logiciel est l'une des plus ancienne du site (voir la plus ancienne). Difficile de changer 22 ans d'habitudes en quelques jours. Voici quelques pistes...
omacronides.comQuitter FirefoxVoilà un article que je n'aurai jamais cru écrire : comment quitter Firefox. La page dédiée au logiciel est l'une des plus ancienne du site (voir la plus ancienne). Difficile de changer 22 ans d'habitudes en quelques jours. Voici quelques pistes...
Given all the Firefox drama in the last few days, I think it's time for me to switch to a gn**ew** browser 
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@http_error_418 @swift @sarahjamielewis Remembering Iceweasel from back in the days I took a look at other FF derivatives and #IceCat at first glimpse seems to be alternative... Had it not been for the fact that it seems dormant. Does anyone know of another "Free as in freedom" alternative? It's scary if all the browsers are not-free at the moment.
(Feel free to boost for reach)
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Je suis actuellement en train de tester Icecat, basée sur Firefox ESR.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
Hors Gecko ou Blink, il y a ce qui est à base de Webkit mais pas encore suffisamment mature (Gnome Web ne supporte pas - encore - les extensions web).
Enfin, un projet à suivre c'est Servo mais là encore c'est très très loin de pouvoir être utilisé comme remplacement de Firefox 
www.gnu.orgGNUzilla and IceCat - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
Trying disabling my tab bar in IceCat via userChrome.css and tab searching for switching to get a more Emacs buffer-like experience. I really like it so far. Avoids a ton of visual clutter, and I can actually find the tab I wanna go to much easier.
I don't know if there's a given term for this mode of navigation, but I find it to be really convenient.
Devinez quoi ?
guix.gnu.orgGNU Guix transactional package manager and distribution — GNU GuixGuix is a distribution of the GNU operating system.
Guix is technology that respects the freedom of computer users.
You are free to run the system for any purpose, study how it
works, improve it, and share it with the whole world.
I've been experimenting with #IceCat as a potential replacement for Mozilla #Firefox and I like the spirit of IceCat, but I can also see the Richard Stallman Esque GNU idealism in play as well.
In a better world IceCat would work but I'm a bit overwhelmed by the procedures required to allow it to work in some cases.
Jeffrey S. 
What is a good way to sync bookmarks between computers since there isn't a native way to do it in Icecat or Librewolf.
I'm looking to give the browser IceCat a try. Currently I use Firefox and to sync my bookmarks between computers, I use Firefox Sync.
Ideal bookmark sync would be FOSS and privacy respecting.
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@dheadshot
Haha 
Never heard of #IceCat!
What do you think about the #opensource Firefox #fork #Librewolf ?
(Can also recommend #MullvadBrowser, it is a very #privacy focused #Firefox version, because #Tor co-developed it - take a look 
)
Since I have you all here talking about #DuckDuckGo, may I mention something that's been troubling me for a while?
#DDG offers a pure-HTML non-JavaScript variant at this URL:
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html
Other than not being polluted by unnecessary JavaScript (fuck yeah?), I'd expect the search results to be the same across the two versions, DDG and HTML-DDG. Instead, I notice far worse search results with the latter. So much worse to the point of being hardly usable.
On my system, this is a pretty indicative example:
- https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fediverse
- https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q=fediverse
Anyone DDG-savvy knows what's going on here?
Context: this bothers because (barring some major misconfiguration on my side?) #Guix #IceCat defaults to HTML-DDG and it's proving to be a pain to switch to vanilla DDG.
html.duckduckgo.comDuckDuckGo
How do I force Firefox or derivatives to always download files to the last location I used?
Currently, the browser uses some kind of "smart" behavior based on filename pattern that slows my work down. I'd like to turn that off.
I have "Always ask you where to save files" checked in the settings, but that's not enough...
Looks like the New Interface for #MastodonSocial #DotSocial doesn't run in #IceCat on my (now-fixed after nearly 3 months) PC! The error is `Uncaught TypeError: Object.hasOwn is not a function`, which is presumably because IceCat doesn't use the latest JS (it's something like a couple of years behind FF), but that shouldn't be a reason to break on it! I hope this new interface isn't rolled out to here too! #MastoDev @Gargron