[ale] Alternative builds of Firefox besides Iceweasel?

[Lightner, Jeff]

The Java stuff you mention surprises me - typically I see Firefox automatically block older Java but give a prompt at top of page to allow then another to either "allow now" or permanently.

There are many insecure sites (including internal) that have issues which Firefox is refusing to allow although it previously did allow one to override.  I just ran across the issue discussed in this link for Dell OpenManage and the steps shown to temporarily allow (not the first solution seen) worked for me.   I then turned off that temporary allow because I DO want to know if I'm visiting insecure sites even if they're internal:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1066238


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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Ted W.
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2015 3:37 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] Alternative builds of Firefox besides Iceweasel?

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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