Thank you for reading, feel free to comment about this post – reach me at my Writer's Lounge. Will update this post with more impressions and any other alternatives I find.īanner Photo by Richy Great on Unsplash – Thank page created entirely in MarkDown language. I am liking Bravo and thinking of switching it to my Default daily driver, as it seems quite fast, light and modern. Here's a snapshot of my current Task Bar – and Brave is showing remarkably well - with the heavy Reddit site loaded and working, as I am writing this post. Latest release IceCat is generated from Firefox with the scripts available in the Git repository of GNUzilla. Besides the sources, binary packages for GNU/Linux (32 and 64 bit) are available. Chrome is famous for hogging all your RAM – “Why Chrome Uses So Much Freaking RAM” for itself, I have not used it for maybe 8 years now. Downloads Official releases of IceCat They are available from, or any GNU mirror. I am happy with it, and tuning the settings you CAN keep the memory usage in check – important to anyone running many tabs and multiple programmes at the same time. While the Firefox source code from the Mozilla project is free software, they distribute and recommend nonfree software as plug-ins and addons. Its main advantage is an ethical one, it is entirely free software. So far, I like Gnu IceCat, although it required some tinkering (importing bookmarks took an export/import manual operation).Īnd I am writing this in Bravo, which surprises me with a light working variant of the famously demanding Chromium project variants (most well known and used of which, also the worst, is Google Chrome browser. GNUzilla is the GNU version of the Mozilla suite, and GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser. Not ideal for me, as I need the screen capture feature frequently, it's so handy. My downloads so far (IceCat is not included in this list)įrom the articles I read, Comodo could be a good one, but its Comodo IceDragon Browser | Secured Internet Browser by Comodo is based on Firefox ESR 68, and a bit behind the current versions. I did read a few pages, and downloaded various browser packages for testing, including : Some alternatives mentioned, in various sites Like this one.Ī better page, with a shorter list – The 5 Lightest Web Browsers – November 2020 I was, and found some good pointers in a couple of pages. Sadly it does not include the nice screenshots built in feature that Waterfox Current and the latest Quantum family FF releases have. I found a Windows 64 bit version and installed it, labelled version 83. IceWeasel is also fork of Firefox, developed by the Debian Foundation, and removes some of the tracking and things Mozilla includes in the regular Firefox releases.Īlthough officially deprecated as obsolete in 2016, there are teams working on it and posting newer versions. Getting a recent version for Windows machines is not the easiest thing – searching for a source, I came across it as one of the many packages supported by Chocolatey, a package manager service for Windows architecture that is similar to the ones running in the various Linux distributions.Īnother alternative is using the unofficial Win64 builds, offered in this GitHub site: GitHub – muslayev/icecat-win64. IceCat is a fork of Firefox, developed by the GNU Foundation, and removes some of the tracking and things Mozilla includes in the regular Firefox releases. I tried a couple of alternatives, and here there's a summary of info and impressions. See the many new topics and people complaining about problems, in the Reddit Waterfox sub-forum. Waterfox, which I have used for years now, is itself an alternative to Firefox, developed based on it, and improved.īut – it has been laggy and acting up on the most recent releases. 3 in SID => clear manpower problem.An update I will share with friends, I have been looking for an alternative to my previous favourite browser. there is only IceCat 52.1.1, whereas the GNU/Linux version is 52.3.0). Now, if Icecat is not in the Debian repositories, it is may be simply because Debian is looking for manpower !!Įven Thunderbird should currently be release 52. Im trying to find a download location for IceCat for Windows but all of the files I find on the download page at https. You can be sure that nobody would have the crazy idea to look for a "pure" and trusted Debian package on a OpenSuse server ( may be few people visiting this forum, and that's all).ġ - Ubuntu: packages not avalaible in Ubuntu repositories are proposed in "PPA" (Personal Package Archives)Ģ - Debian packages => only one place: Debian repositories, and nowhere else => Dont Break Debian However, the question is: where to put your files ? of course you can make specific packages for your Ubuntu and Debian systems, if you have a lot of free time. Code: Select all dpkg -i -simulate my_scary_bĪnd analyze the output.
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