Is Firefox really privacy, protecting, safe & secure? What about GNU-IceCat?

[Member anilkagi]

Hello there,

A couple of days ago I read this CNET article (A dangerous conflict of interest between Firefox and Google), I was really dumbfounded, since till now I had thought FF to be the best, privacy protecting, secure, browser out there.

I then tried to find out which then is a better alternative, but couldn’t get hold on to anything.

What about IceCat from GNUzilla?

Please throw some light over this, so that Noobs like me can shed our ignorance.

Thanks & Regards

• This topic was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by anilkagi.
• This topic was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by anilkagi.

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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If your gear can run icecat. Why not? I run Sea Monkey when the gear calls for it. No body tells me how to drive my motorcycles or drive gnu/linux.
Road conditions do though.

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Edit: for the noob part Duck duck go, startpage, plus other search engines. Keep my paranoia at bay. Then firefox has this also

” New Private Windpow ” ” Run Firefox in safe mode ”

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rokytnji wrote:

If your gear can run icecat. Why not? I run Sea Monkey when the gear calls for it. No body tells me how to drive my motorcycles or drive gnu/linux.
Road conditions do though.

😀

Edit: for the noob part Duck duck go, startpage, plus other search engines. Keep my paranoia at bay. Then Firefox has this also

” New Private Window ” ” Run Firefox in safe mode ”

I wrote about this once already today in another thread, but I think you covered the essence of it today too.
“Safe mode” and ” New Private Window ” will offer sufficient additional protection that the average “bad guy” will go after EASIER catches than to bother most of us – UNLESS they see BIG MONEY in something we are doing, using, or have that we’ve discussed or searched on the Internet.

If you are paranoid, research ways to better lock down your system; additional security IS available. The more you lock down, the more inconvenient it is to use the system, and the slower it runs, so OLD hardware isn’t the best place to try to run the absolutely most secure system. Frankly though antiX is just fine for most of us poor folks! 😉

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There are differences in browsers. But mostly it’s up to us as users to properly setup our systems. You can learn to setup Firefox and use different search engines, etc. In Linux you will find that it is not always easy to just install a new piece of software that you found in a search. You will need to learn how to compile the software yourself or you will rely on the developers to “package” the software to work with your particular system.

If you are really determined you can learn how to be as secure as you want. But most of the work will be done by you, the user.

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[Member anilkagi]

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rokytnji wrote:

If your gear can run icecat.

Thanks, for your inputs rokytnji, and for the inputs from everyone. I am just reading on, hoping to be enlightened in due course. By the way…

… when my gear can run, FF-ESR-68 & FF-78, why not Icecat? I am curious.

Thanks

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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Should be OK. No telling though because .mozilla folder is controlled by you personally < surfing habits >.
Icecat is based on mozilla.

So. You are not changing much.

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[Member anilkagi]

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I’ll install and find out. 🙂

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