For all the criticism I leveled against Icecat in the last year, I am in fact using it as my primary browser, and we include it in FreeSlack as the Firefox replacement. It is not perfect, but is certainly is a viable solution, for users as well as for distro maintainers.
Nice to hear others are coming along... I really want to start experimenting with providing light-weight, and especially javascript-free options. On Wednesday, November 09, 2016 20:26:02 Jean Louis wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 10:01:51AM -0800, Ivan Zaigralin wrote: > > you distribute a browser which suggests non-free addons, period. I am well > > known around here for criticizing Icecat, so I am not saying that's > > what you > > Straying from subject: > > - IceCat is great for some usage, but bloated, I have switched to > surf, xombrero, uzbl, they are also way easier to compile: > > Xombrero shall be on OpenBSD, don't know quite: > https://github.com/conformal/xombrero > > http://uzbl.org - excellent pipe, socket, controllable browser > > surf from http://suckless.org > > And those could be included in free system distributions. > > > JL
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