Il browser IceCat dice che offre ulteriori funzioni di privacy e sicurezza. Il wikipedia dice:
IceCat includes additional security features, such as the option to block third party zero-length image files resulting in third party cookies, also known as web bugs[8] (This feature is available in Firefox 1.0, 1.5, and 3.0, but the UI option was absent on 2.0).[8] GNU IceCat also provides warnings for URL redirection.[8]
In version 3.0.2-g1, the certificate of CAcert.org, a certificate authority, has been added to the list of trusted root certificates. Concern[according to whom?] about that decision has been raised in a discussion on the savannah-hackers-public mailing list.[23]
The GNU LibreJS extension detects and blocks nonfree nontrivial JavaScript.
IceCat also has functionaity to set a different user agent string each for different domains in about:config. For example, setting a non-mobile user agent string for a desired domain would make it possible in Android to visit a non-mobile version of a website.
Ma se disabilito LibreJS (dato che si rompe su molti siti Web), ci sarebbe ancora qualche vantaggio nell'usare IceCat rispetto ad altri browser? cioè, SeaMonkey o Firefox con adBlock più + noscript?