[Idea] Allow the user to decide the usage profile for Abrowser

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ivanruvalcaba
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Nice day community!

Well, before I start, let me do a little context.

Currently in some distributions (like Fedora) Firefox is offered as two different packages, the one included by default (the application obtained upstream) and the second one that is available in its official repositories and offers native support for Wayland.

With the above in mind, I think that an aspect that some of us would appreciate would be the possibility of having two versions of Abrowser at our disposal. The first could be to offer a vanilla Abrowser (without security or privacy settings), same that comes enabled by default when installing Trisquel and as a second option to offer a hardener Abrowser available to the user within the repositories of the distribution (with current settings that suggest protecting the user from security and privacy issues).

I know there is a remote possibility that this proposal is not possible but as far as I'm concerned, I think it could be very well received by those of us who have problems with this browser so we don't have to look for alternatives to it.

What do you think?

Best regards.

chaosmonk

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Trisquel has two Firefox-based browsers: Abrowser and Icecat. Icecat has
stricter privacy settings than Abrowser, particularly in using LibreJS to
block all proprietary JavaScript by default. If you would like a more
privacy focused browser than Abrowser, maybe you'll prefer Icecat.