I thought maybe this Icecat version might be a little better, but even that has some ridiculous defaults that compromise user privacy.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ that need to be changed.
Here's one of the basics that google analictics seemed to somehow manage to bribe someone in Mozilla to default into:
Along with some other problems
How do I turn off Location-Aware Browsing permanently?
Location-Aware Browsing is always opt-in in Firefox 3.5. No location information is ever sent without your permission. If you wish to disable the feature completely, please follow this set of steps:
* In the URL bar, type about:config
* Type geo.enabled
* Double click on the geo.enabled preference sot it will toggle it to FALSE
* Location-Aware Browsing is now disabled
I think anyone who cares about privacy issues should respond. I can't really expect the Linux Mint developers who rigged useragent to say "Mint Linux" to understand and give a straight answer. It seems their goal is contrary to a lot of user goals because they would rather people be naive and spread the message that Mint is popular, but maybe there's a few true GNU Free software advocates who are true to Richard Stallman's philosophy who might read this and give advice?
Here's some links giving clues about what can be done and some of my struggles.
This solution is not really working for me at all, but the goal is some of what I want done:
http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Set-Us ... -177534531
These firefox ad-ons kind of help:
"No script "
Can hide the "internal address", but this has to add-on has other issues with certain sites:
What I mean by "internal address" is thoroughly explained in this thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... ed-853643/
"Quick Java" Is kind of nice
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1237/
User agent switcher is kind of nice too
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59/
tends to only give the option to show the browser as "Windows Explorer," which can be a problem for some sites.
Here's some privacy testing sites:
http://www.auditmypc.com/anonymous-surfing.asp
http://browserspy.dk/
http://whatsmyuseragent.com/
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Of course there's the option of using a proxy server, but who really wants to do that?