Best browser? Also chess

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Beko
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Joined: 08/31/2019

Hello everyone,

Moving to completely free software is very hard, but I will persevere!

I am trying to choose between aBrowser and IceCat, I am aware that this has been asked on this forum before. In my specific use-case I was wondering if IceCat would have potentially less of a fingerprint due to not needing to install any add-ons besides the preinstalled ones, or aBrowser with differing add-ons? If javascript is disabled and an add-on such as blender was installed could you effectively fake that you are using win10 and other normie configurations on aBrowser?

A second question for anyone knowledgeable in java/javascript coding would be whether lichess.org is truly libre? On icecat with librejs the javascript did not load, however their javascript source code is published and they claim to be free/libre on the website (claims made at https://lichess.org/about). Although the GNUChess app is great, playing against engines is never as satisfying as playing against real people.

If it truly is libre, and just incompatible with librejs, would using abrowser and noscript, whitelisting on that website, compromise my freedom?

Thanks!

commodore256
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I like pale moon, but there's a drama with MPL trademarks. It's really good and really respects your privacy though, It's like Firefox ESR in another direction.

For browsing without Javascript, I'd recommend you use Netsurf. It's only 50MB when you launch it.

I don't know much about Chess, but for an XMPP Client called "Gajim", you can install a tic-tac-toe plugin. Somebody I was chatting with had really bad internet upstream issues in mumble where he could hear us, but he would drop too many packets and somebody in mumble said he was playing tic-tac-toe in gajim. Then I thought that could be really good for people with really bad shiternet, imagine if there was a plugin for texas hold up, yu-gi-oh or chess.

Magic Banana

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Joined: 07/24/2010

You can use https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/random_user_agent/ on Abrowser.

According to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ornicar/lila/master/LICENSE the chess game server is apparently free software.