On 07/17/2015 01:01 AM, Natu wrote: > On 07/16/2015 02:55 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:43:25 -0700, Natu wrote: >>> And yes, you have to turn off features in firefox to avoid >>> similar spying behavior, but it can be done without maintaining your >>> own version of the source code. >> But we need to monitor Firefox. A minute ago I deleted 7 Yahoo entries >> in about:config. Using Wireshark I noticed connections to a Yahoo >> thingy. If you clean about:config from all unwanted entries, you might >> automagically get new unwanted entries after a while. I consider my >> machine as a digital audio workstation with less security and less >> privacy. Pale Moon seems not to be (much) better. Maybe QupZilla is a >> little bit better, at least the history is better usable :D. > > Tor browser, or Jondofox are another possibility. I'm pretty sure > jondofox can be easily configured to go directly out to the internet > without using their network (not that TOR or Jondo network's are bad, > just too slow for many uses. I do use both TOR and Jondo networks at > times) and the browsers (both Tor and Jondofox are based on firefox) > have been modifed and hopefully spy features have been removed. > There's also GNU Icecat in AUR and Parabola's libre repositories. I don't think it has spyware, but it's probably not better security-wise. The releases seem to lag slightly behind the Firefox ESR releases it is based on.
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