IceCat

[keyplyr]

UA: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20121201 icecat/17.0.1
Protocol: HTTP/1.1
Robots.txt: No
Host: Various

IceCat, formerly named IceWeasel with upper-case W, is the GNU version of the Firefox browser. The main difference is: it is entirely free software. While the source code from the Mozilla project is free software, the binaries that they release include additional non-free software.

[dstiles]

> formerly named IceWeasel
But different browser from the original iceweasel.

"The gNewSense BurningDog browser and the Debian IceWeasel browser are similarly derived from Firefox... Previously, this GNU browser project was also named IceWeasel, but that proved confusing."

Got an idea I'll try it when I get a chance. :)

[keyplyr]

But different browser from the original iceweasel.

Yeah, that's why I emphasised the upper-case W.

Personally, I stopped playing with new browsers a while back. Fun, but really no benefit to me. I'm so busy I don't have the time any longer. I removed all browsers from my machines leaving only Chrome & Edge... the ones people actually use since they come default on hardware (Safari is collateral damage, but then again, it always has been.)

[dstiles]

I looked for cat, dog and weasel in linux Software Centre (Mint 17 and 18) but no longer there - I'm sure weasel used to be. And I can't be bothered to compile from source, so forget it. For now I'll stay with firefox.

[keyplyr]

I used Firefox for years, but because of mobile, I switched to Chrome. Chrome has the same Web Developer tools (actually a few more) and once I got the hang of it, I liked it better. It's certainly faster than Firefox.

I publish Adsense and the Publisher extension on Chrome is really handy. Also, pages I created using Firefox didn't space correctly with all the mobile browsers, even mobile Firefox. Firefox ads a little extra space to common CSS divs. When looked at on mobile, that extra space becomes significant.

I did like the way bookmarks displayed better on FF though.