Pjotr Prins transcribed 650 bytes: > On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 01:59:24PM -0400, Mike Gerwitz wrote: > > I use IceCat personally and FF Dev Edition at work. Until the recent > > move to WebExtensions, I used the same addons. I use NoScript and Tor > > and have no problems. But I rarely enable JS and never run proprietary > > JS, so my exposure may be different. I do not use LibreJS (because I > > don't usually run JS at all in general and it historically did not play > > well with NoScript; maybe that has changed). > > Disabling all extensions makes Icecat work much better. I'll try it as > a default now. > > Question: why do we switch on extensions by default? Sure confused my > experience. > > Pj.
I think it's because this is upstreams decision and we usually stick with what upstream does. Although you could almost call our Icecat a variant of Icecat due to more work going into tracking Mozilla and applying patches done by Mark.
