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I've been thinking about starting an "un-Mozillaed" distribution of Firefox for a long time. Maybe the IceWeasel brand is now free?

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Ironically Firefox was the "un-Mozillaed" version of the Mozilla browser back in the day and Firefox was released as the lean, unbloated, very fast version of the Mozilla browser and now we have come full circle.

I have stopped using Firefox after using it daily for years because I was just so sick of their updates making things progressively worse.

Is the SeaMonkey project “active enough” for daily use? Could I go somewhat full circle?

They update the engine from Firefox periodically, but the browser is a rather important part of security.

As a firefox and chrome replacement, no. It has difficulties with the new web standards and JS bloat. But for the rest of the internet is ok.

It’s called IceCat, and it already exists.

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