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This is not new and it's half the reason I browse the web in icecat/elinks. The other half being that most of the javascript out there is written without regard
by swiley 6y ago
This is not new and it's half the reason I browse the web in icecat/elinks. The other half being that most of the javascript out there is written without regard for resource consumption.
- paulryanrogers 6y agoWhat protections are unique to IceCat?
- saagarjha 6y agoPresumably the different kind of "security by obscurity" that comes with using software that nobody else uses and thus nobody will spend resources targeting
- warkdarrior 6y agoAs far as I can tell, IceCat uses the same rendering and Javascript engines as Firefox, so it'll have the same security issues as Firefox.
- swiley 6y agoIceCat disables JavaScript that it doesn't have in a database or isn't written in a non-recursive subset of the language. Each chunk of JavaScript has to be reviewed and explicitly enabled by the user before executing.
- forgotmypw17 6y agoi,ve also found that accessibility and content quality are strongly correlated, saving me reading time.