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by TAForObvReasons 2540 days ago
Also worth mentioning IceCat: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

> GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser. Its main advantage is an ethical one: it is entirely free software. While the Firefox source code from the Mozilla project is free software, they distribute and recommend non-free software as plug-ins and addons.

EDIT: removed a clause about the relationship with IceWeasel, thanks for the historical context @quadrangle and @war1025
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quadrangle 2540 days ago
> IceCat, formerly IceWeasel

Nope. IceWeasel was a Debian rebranding of Firefox which has been discontinued. GNU IceCat was always GNU IceCat and was not formerly IceWeasel.

(I still upvoted your mention of IceCat here)

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war1025 2540 days ago
Note that Gnu IceCat, formerly Gnu IceWeasel, is a completely separate project from Debian Iceweasel, which was just a redistribution of Firefox without copyrighted icons.
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