Trying to move away from FireFox.
I know that there is LibreWolf and GNU IceCat.
What are the pros and cons for each?
I tried GNU IceCat and I don’t know how to install extensions. How to get extensions for GNU IceCat? Is it easier on LibreWolf?
I need the following extensions:
- ublock origin
- send to MPV player
- privacy badger
- Distraction free youtube
- Unhook
- LeechBlock NG
- Privacy Badger
- Tab Session Manager
- KeePassXC-Browser
I think you would be hard-pressed to tell the difference between Firefox and Librewolf as you do all of your normal business with websites, but prove me wrong.
For IceCat, my main browser, you have to do a web search for the extensions you want and install the extension from their website, from Github, or from Firefox Addons. The IceCat FSF have a mentality of believing the only way to protect people’s freedom, which never ever includes freedom of choice, is to have total tyrannical control and eliminate all options for users that don’t conform to FSF philosophy because users aren’t smart enough to know what not to install. So the IceCat people say the best way to protect people is cut off their ability to natively search Firefox Add-on website.
I’m curious to ask you, why do you use Distraction free YouTube instead of FreeTube? Do you need native YouTube functionality or do you post comments?
Thank you for the comment.
It seems difficult to get extensions onto IceCat it seems. I guess I’d have to update them myself as well.
I use Distraction Free YouTube because I run into errors when using FreeTube. I use Distraction Free YouTube to see the description. I use MPV to view the video.
All of the extensions on the Firefox Addon website seem to install fine in IceCat. The extensions will be updated automatically. I recommend after installing IceCat disable all of the extensions that come with it built in or websites won’t load as expected.
Yes. That was the first things I learned very quickly.
freetube is broken now