Re: If FOSS isn't your number one concern, why use IceCat?

[Haniho Dude]

This is indeed great news; it fully addresses the original concern that made me ask my questions. However, it does not answer the questions themselves:

• Other than the components that exist only to make IceCat FOSS and the addons that any Firefox user can obtain, what does IceCat offer that cannot be obtained by using a privacy-hardened user.js file? Making the time to study ghacks and build your own user.js is the most extreme example and probably the closest to Narcis Garcia's point, but the examples in my original email are little more than copy and paste jobs.
  
• If one has already hardened their user.js and does not prioritise FOSS, is there any reason to run the MakeIceCat script?

Unfortunately, with Project Fission in mind, there is still some difficulty in deciding between hardening (non-ESR) Firefox and using GNU IceCat. I would like to be sure of the facts before I make any comparisons or try to convince others of the merits of IceCat.

Thanks again.

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From: help-gnuzilla <help-gnuzilla-bounces+hanihodude=address@hidden> on behalf of Johannes Marbach <address@hidden>
Sent: 17 November 2019 19:57
To: Mark H Weaver <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: If FOSS isn't your number one concern, why use IceCat?

 

This is great news! Thanks in advance to all three of you new
co-maintainers for devoting your time! :)