If I recall correctly, isn't GNU IceCat constantly being updated also in
Trisquel?
I noticed this to be true because when I inspect the version of the
package in the repositories, I get the same version I'm using now from
GNU Guix. So I vote for sticking with GNU IceCat from Trisquel.
LXQt, the 3 years old lightweight Q5 desktop, but dependent on aging and
anti-aesthetic Openbox to be wm, but I am usually using kwin5 or xfwm4, even
extracting ones from the parallel desktops alongside my systems instead.
It is already old-school to still be mentioning Midori, and LXQt has been in
the cutting edge for the Gtk+, Xfce, KDE refugees since 2014, so LXQt related
QupZilla has been also in the WebKit cutting edge.
WebKit based: Midori hasn't seen a new release since 2015 and was recently
removed by
ALSA is part of Linux, the kernel, so it is probably more common than the
optional sound server PulseAudio.
NPAPI "plugins are a source of performance problems, crashes, and security
incidents":
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plugins-in-firefox/
Mozilla didn't remove the entire NPAPI code base. They still support Adobe
Flash. If the stability and security bothered them
I use Firefox ESR. Works fine for now, but it will break WebExtensions at
some point next year.
>you can download manually the compressed package from official website and
install it
not install but rather extract it and then run the executable, just pointing
out.
>this build has automatic upgrade tool activated
It doesn't work sadly, well.. it does, partially in that it alerts of a
I use surf along with dwm as my window manager and find it works very well
once one gets used to the controls not being graphically based.
Official Website: https://www.waterfoxproject.org/
Repo: https://www.waterfoxproject.org/downloads
Note: also you can download manually the compressed packages from official
website and install it, this build has automatic upgrade tool activated, if
you download Waterfox from the repo, this
As you know Trisquel's recent releases (6 and 7 and the upcoming 8) are long
term releases.
These releases tend to offer software which does not receive version updates
for the available packages, however they do offer version updates for the
main Mozilla browser.
Many of the browsers
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