[sf-lug] (forw) Re: Brave browser

[Rick Moen]

It would scare _me_, relying on an unmaintained one-time port of a huge,
public-facing piece of software, but, strictly at your own risk:

http://web.archive.org/web/20180906042707/https://download.8pecxstudios.com/latest/Cyberfox-52.8.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.deb
http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://download.8pecxstudios.com/latest/Cyberfox-52.8.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://download.8pecxstudios.com/latest/Cyberfox-52.9.1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
Cyberfox 52.9.1 is a mid-2018 release.  If my calendar doesn't lie, that
means it's um... old -- and that's the very latest Cyberfox release
code.


(I'm still mystified about how a 'live URL' in this context would differ from a
URL without the 'live' qualifier.  But hey, what do I know?  I've only
had a Web server running for a bit over a quarter-century.)

I'm glad we're all agreed that it's based on Firefox.  ;->
Specifically, Cyberfox is one of a large number of third-party forks of
the 2016 pre-Firefox 48 codebase, the release where Mozilla, Inc.
deliberately broke XUL & XPCOM in Release Edition and Beta Edition.  A
year further on, they also broke it in Firefox ESR, and, worse, made all
of the browser release code refuse to run extensions unless they are
cryptographically signed by Mozilla, Inc.

So, for all of those reasons, quite a number of offshoots of the
pre-Firefox 48 codebase have sprung up, and are variously semi-popular.



----- Forwarded message from Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> -----

Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 20:40:59 -0700
From: Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com>
To: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
Subject: Re: [sf-lug] Brave browser


[snip]
 
        No Rick, it is Cyberfox.  and while I cannot copy all
the information from the About Cyberfox section it is based on Mozilla
as one might guess from the name but comes from
https://cyberfox.8pecxstudios.com/cyberfox-linux which is down right
now.

I got mine thru Synaptic on PCLinux by searching on browsers. My
version is 52.9.1

*"Binaries* of this product have been made available to you by the
8pecxstudios <https://8pecxstudios.com/> under
the Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL). Know your rights." then a list
of applicable licenses.

    Oh and if this gets through 3rd line above contain URL and
your post contains two live URLs.

    Bobbie

----- End forwarded message -----