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@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.
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@arunisaac I might be wrong, but my understanding having used both is that iceweasel removes the spammy proprietary addons that get baked into firefox these days and disables a few features that require DRM, and that icecat removes all proprietary code including DRM, features, and even support for proprietary codecs which is a lot more thorough sifting through the codebase rather than a remix with new branding. That is why !icecat is consistently behind the main firefox version. More work is involved in maintaining icecat.
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