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[Discuss] Firefox -> Icecat



Although I have extremely limited knowledge of FSF/GNU's position on free software, I thought perhaps Icecat would not include extra bells and whistles that Firefox has - things that would slow down the browser.


On June 22, 2015 10:40:08 AM EDT, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 6/22/2015 10:36 AM, edwardp at linuxmail.org wrote:
>> Regarding the recent discussion about Firefox and its flaws, would
>> Icecat be a suitable replacement for it? It's GNU's (FSF?) version of
>> Firefox. It's offered with Fedora, not sure about the other distros.
>
>Why would it? IceCat and IceWeasel (Debian's edition) are Firefox with 
>the trademarks filed off.
>
>-- 
>Rich P.
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