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[Discuss] Firefox -> Icecat
- Subject: [Discuss] Firefox -> Icecat
- From: edwardp at linuxmail.org (edwardp at linuxmail.org)
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 10:56:10 -0400
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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. >_______________________________________________ >Discuss mailing list >Discuss at blu.org >http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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- [Discuss] Firefox -> Icecat
- From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)
- [Discuss] Firefox -> Icecat
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