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Abrowser
Abrowser is Trisquel's version of Mozilla's popular web browser with the trademarked logos replaced. Replacing the trademarked logos gets rid of the trademark restriction that forbids selling the software, which would have effectively made it non-free software.
Add-ons
The Trisquel project maintains a list of free software add-ons for Abrowser. It is not currently possible to install add-ons directly from within Abrowser so if you wish to install an add-on you must do so from this site.Support
Further support for Abrowser can be found in the user forum or the official IRC channel (#trisquel on irc.freenode.net). Also, please help the project by submitting bug reports.Resisting Fingerprinting
By default, Abrowser resets browser geometry and zoom level, as privacy features. If you wish to disable these features, you can do so by going to about:config and changing privacy.resistFingerprinting to False.Midori
Midori is the default web browser for Trisquel-mini. It is simple and fast using webkit technology.
Because Midori has discontinued in 2015, Trisquel-mini users have to know that they can install 'abrowser' from the terminal.
Support
About Abrowser, IceCat and Trisquel
Ruben, the main developer of Trisquel has commented on the reasoning of maintaining two separate, yet very similar, browsers in the following Reddit thread. To sum up from Ruben's writing: "Abrowser, other that saner default settings to improve privacy, is pretty much Firefox and should provide a quite "neutral" browsing experience. IceCat on the other hand includes more aggressive freedom and privacy features".
