This plugin disables IndexedDB, with the goal of enhancing #privacy by making your #browser a little harder to uniquely fingerprint. Please be warned, websites that depend on IndexedDB might not work when this plugin is enabled. You can always click the icon to disable/enable the plugin. Green means IndexedDB is disabled, and red means it's available for websites to use. By default, this plugin will enable itself every time Firefox boots up. If you'd like the disabled status to persist across reboots, there's an option allowing that in the plugin preferences screen. That about covers it all. Hope you enjoy the plugin.
@musicman IMO, a complete mistake. Adopting #Chrome's extension API and limitations will mean that some of #Firefox's most useful extensions will not be possible. (Although it should mean that one can have almost the exact same set of extensions in both browsers, modulo the approval process.)
Inside Mozilla, CEO Chris Beard and his team are preparing to outmaneuver Google’s Chrome browser. The battle begins in November, with their release of Firefox 57.
@arunisaac@social.systemreboot.net @arunisaac@social.systemreboot.net it looks to me like icecat's developer, Reuben Rodriguez, follows along with whatever #security #updates are relevant to !icecat . However it seems to me that because of how it is built and configured Icecat has a smaller attack surface than #firefox does by default. It is likely even better than Firefox with regards to #security because of it.
That explains it. I always wondered why !icecat lags behind the #firefox version so much. Will I have any problems with newly discovered security vulnerabilities if I use icecat? Or are there rapid #security #updates as soon as the #vulnerabilities are discovered?