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Privacy ProjectJust 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!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/brave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brave</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#browser</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/icecat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#icecat</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firefox</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/shortcut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shortcut</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/keyboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#keyboard</a>

Privacy ProjectMy recent post regarding <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/icecat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#icecat</a> 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. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#browser</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firefox</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/addons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#addons</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gnu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gnu</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#foss</a>

Privacy Project<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IceCat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IceCat</a> extensions disabled because they're not verified?!!WTF is this BS?!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#browser</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firefox</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/addons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#addons</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gnu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gnu</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#foss</a>

Paul GiulanA look at <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> forks <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1012453/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lwn.net/Articles/1012453/</a><a href="https://federate.social/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mozilla</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GNU</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/IceCat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IceCat</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Floorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Floorp</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/LibreWolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LibreWolf</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Zen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zen</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Basilisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Basilisk</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Waterfox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Waterfox</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/PaleMoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaleMoon</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/SeaMonkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SeaMonkey</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FLOSS</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#browser</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#browsers</a>

niu tech<a href="https://mastodon.social/@Mojeek" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Mojeek</a> You forgot about <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GNU</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IceCat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IceCat</a>: <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/</a>

Bob Jonkman<a href="https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@neil</a> Thanx for that article on browsers!<a href="https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/03/what-if-anything-should-i-do-about-using-mozillas-firefox/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/03/what-if-anything-should-i-do-about-using-mozillas-firefox/</a>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...<a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/</a><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mozilla</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/IceCat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IceCat</a>

Rui Nibau (rnb)[blog] Quitter 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...<a href="https://omacronides.com/articles/firefox-quit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://omacronides.com/articles/firefox-quit</a><a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mozilla</a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Librewolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Librewolf</a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Icecat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Icecat</a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/GnomeWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GnomeWeb</a>

OpenSauce :gentoo: :emacs:Given all the Firefox drama in the last few days, I think it's time for me to switch to a gn**ew** browser :ac_smirk: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#browser</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FireFox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FireFox</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#foss</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GNU</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/icecat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#icecat</a>

DoomBananas 🇳🇴<a href="https://hachyderm.io/@http_error_418" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@http_error_418</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/@swift" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@swift</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sarahjamielewis</a> Remembering Iceweasel from back in the days I took a look at other FF derivatives and <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/IceCat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IceCat</a> 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)

Rui Nibau (rnb)<a href="https://mamot.fr/@Khrys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Khrys</a> Je suis actuellement en train de tester Icecat, basée sur Firefox ESR.<a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/</a>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 😞 <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Icecat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Icecat</a>

Paul Giulan<a href="https://federate.social/tags/Cloudflare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cloudflare</a> is blocking browsers including <a href="https://federate.social/tags/PaleMoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaleMoon</a>, <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Falkon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Falkon</a>, <a href="https://federate.social/tags/SeaMonkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SeaMonkey</a>, <a href="https://federate.social/tags/IceCat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IceCat</a>, and <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Basilisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Basilisk</a><a href="https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32045" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32045</a><a href="https://community.cloudflare.com/t/access-denied-to-pale-moon-desktop-browser/764330" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://community.cloudflare.com/t/access-denied-to-pale-moon-desktop-browser/764330</a><a href="https://federate.social/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#browser</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/DNS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DNS</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/OpenWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenWeb</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Gecko" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gecko</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Blink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blink</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Chromium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chromium</a>

Klara! ❤️Trying disabling my tab bar in IceCat via <code>userChrome.css</code> 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.<a href="https://im-in.space/tags/icecat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#icecat</a> <a href="https://im-in.space/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firefox</a>

@francksBonjour à toots,🤩 Devinez quoi ?Naviguer sur <a href="https://mstdn.fr/tags/masto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#masto</a> avec <a href="https://mstdn.fr/tags/icecat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#icecat</a> installé via <a href="https://mstdn.fr/tags/guix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#guix</a> sous <a href="https://mstdn.fr/tags/debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#debian</a> c'est un peu comme se faire les griffes sur le canapé - trop bon 😁<a href="https://guix.gnu.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://guix.gnu.org/</a><a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/</a>

Jessie Nabein :neofox_peek_owo:a lot of effort to edit imma repost this <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firefox</a> <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/icecat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#icecat</a> <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/fennec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fennec</a>

Robert [KJ5ELX] :donor:I've been experimenting with <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/IceCat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IceCat</a> as a potential replacement for Mozilla <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> 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.

:arch: 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.<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firefox</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/icecat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#icecat</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/librewolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#librewolf</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#foss</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a>

MadeInDex 📰🌎<a href="https://mastodon.social/@dheadshot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dheadshot</a> Haha 😂 Never heard of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IceCat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IceCat</a>!What do you think about the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opensource</a> Firefox <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Librewolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Librewolf</a> ?(Can also recommend <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MullvadBrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MullvadBrowser</a>, it is a very <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> focused <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> version, because <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tor</a> co-developed it - take a look 😀)

Fabio NataliSince I have you all here talking about <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DuckDuckGo</a>, may I mention something that's been troubling me for a while?<a href="https://octodon.social/tags/DDG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DDG</a> offers a pure-HTML non-JavaScript variant at this URL:<a href="https://html.duckduckgo.com/html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://html.duckduckgo.com/html</a>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:- <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fediverse</a> - <a href="https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q=fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q=fediverse</a>Anyone DDG-savvy knows what's going on here?Context: this bothers because (barring some major misconfiguration on my side?) <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/Guix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Guix</a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/IceCat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IceCat</a> defaults to HTML-DDG and it's proving to be a pain to switch to vanilla DDG.

Luis FelipeHow 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...<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firefox</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/icecat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#icecat</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#browser</a>

DHeadshot's AltLooks like the New Interface for <a href="https://topspicy.social/tags/MastodonSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastodonSocial</a> <a href="https://topspicy.social/tags/DotSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DotSocial</a> doesn't run in <a href="https://topspicy.social/tags/IceCat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IceCat</a> 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! <a href="https://topspicy.social/tags/MastoDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoDev</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Gargron" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Gargron</a>

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