My main laptop is dead, so I’m on a potato laptop with a 6th gen Intel i3 processor and 4GB of RAM. I have IceCat installed, but I really don’t like the defaults it provides.

Maybe I am in the wrong here, but from the Arkenfox page, I’ve read that having way too many extension is bad - there’s an unbelievable amount of these plugins. IceCat being on the older ESR version is a big no when it comes to security. Last but not the least, I want to create a separate, non-secure profile to use normal pages, but IceCat has hard-coded blocks on several websites.

And that is exactly why I’m looking to move to LibreWolf. But the issue is that there is no pre-built binaries available for my distro. I’ve waited the entire day for this browser, and I’m tired of having to come back to a frozen desktop, or build fails while waking from sleep.

I’m trying the build once again, and I just wanted to know how long it takes to build, so that I can leave it uninterrupted.

  • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Security fixes are backported to ESR releases so they are not less secure than bleeding edge.

    • velox_vulnus@lemmy.mlOP
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      8 months ago

      Looks like CVE-2024-29944 affects my IceCat version. Kinda frustrating that I know about this, and yet I’m still using it, as I have no other choice.