[SOLVED] surfing with Epiphany / Iceweasel / elinks

bucovaina78 · 07-14-2013, 08:04 AM

Simple question: is surfing with Epiphany or Iceweasel safer than Mozilla firefox?

And what about elinks? It only displays text so my guess would be that it's pretty safe, on top it's not really a target for many crackers since elinks surfers are not really that big of an audience I'd guess.

Noway2 · 07-14-2013, 11:45 AM

These browsers are just Firefox with some of the proprietary stuff removed by default. I would not consider them to be any "safer", but then I would also have to qualify that by asking what you mean by safer? Safer as in less likely to have your traffic sniffed or pick up malware? No, I wouldn't say that they are safer.

frankbell · 07-14-2013, 09:23 PM

Iceweasel is Debian's reworked Firefox with the branding removed. Debian is aggressively free.

To the best of my understanding, Epiphany is not just a reworked Firefox, but has its own development history. It is the Gnome project's browser.