[ale] Alternative builds of Firefox besides Iceweasel?

[Jim Kinney]

Icecat is the gnu build of firefox.

On August 24, 2015 3:36:39 PM EDT, "Ted W." <ted-lists at xy0.org> wrote:
>I have become increasingly annoyed with Mozilla's stance on what
>browsers should and should not do for their users. I understand their
>points but I don't want MY browser forcing my plugins to be signed (I
>have several plugins I prefer to build from source). I don't want MY
>browser rejected bad SSL if it's SHA-1 and I don't want MY browser
>preventing me from running things like Java when it's not up to date. I
>miss the days when my browser did what I told it to do and didn't try
>to
>protect me from the bad out there </s>. Sometimes I just want my
>browser to
>expect me to know that I've got things configured a certain way and
>that
>I want them to work like that rather than assuming certain things are
>misconfigurations. An example of this is a KVM switch we have at the
>office
>that requires a terribly old version of Java to use the web console and
>uses an old SHA-1 certificate. I have a Firefox installation
>specifically
>configured to use this page which has the self signed certificate
>trusted
>and the right version of Java. But I can't use it anymore because the
>certificate is SHA-1 and Firefox won't run the insecure version of
>Java.
>
>There have got to be some alternative builds of Firefox out there
>created by people in similar situations. If not, then are there other
>browser options out there which will "just work" (tm) like the Firefox
>of old?
>
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>Ted Wood <ted-lists at xy0.org>
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