If it’s been a couple of years for Fedilab, it sounds like it would be worth installing again from F-Droid to try it and check if it’s gotten a lot better or not since you used it last so you can give a more accurate review.

It is a libre web browser, that’s all I care about.

After looking for a browser without anti-features, I have settled on using FREE Browser

I can not understand what you are asking. Is a word or 2 missing from your question?

Only if you do not register your phone number with any service like Signal, bank does not require 2FA before you can access your account, and you never need any company to send you a message.

That’s a fantasy that SimpleX will ever catch on over Signal. You have to look at in the sense of path of least resistance for that mass market, not one individual person to another individual person. Keep in mind why it’s too difficult to sign up for a Mastodon account so it’s easier to stay on Twitter. People promote the benefits of Mastodon but nobody has ever built any success in the mass market or built a name for themself on Mastodon over using Facebook and Twitter. Name a company that people know in other countries and only uses fediverse exclusively. It’s the lowest number you can think of. As long as people have someone’s Twitter handle, everybody can find them. That’s why Signal is the best option, because people only have to post their username or give out their phone number, and everybody can be found on Signal.

For example, if you and I have a mutual contact, you could tell them to message me on Signal and you give them my info so they can talk with me there. If a company starts using Signal and posts the company’s number saying they are on Signal similar to how a lot of companies outside of North America use Whatsapp with the company number, the company can also use Signal as another contact option. That’s why SimpleX will never grow beyond people who pay attention to protecting persona privacy.

Look at PGP, it’s 30 years old, how many times has a person asked you for your public key?

All of the extensions on the Firefox Addon website seem to install fine in IceCat. The extensions will be updated automatically. I recommend after installing IceCat disable all of the extensions that come with it built in or websites won’t load as expected.

I think you would be hard-pressed to tell the difference between Firefox and Librewolf as you do all of your normal business with websites, but prove me wrong.

For IceCat, my main browser, you have to do a web search for the extensions you want and install the extension from their website, from Github, or from Firefox Addons. The IceCat FSF have a mentality of believing the only way to protect people’s freedom, which never ever includes freedom of choice, is to have total tyrannical control and eliminate all options for users that don’t conform to FSF philosophy because users aren’t smart enough to know what not to install. So the IceCat people say the best way to protect people is cut off their ability to natively search Firefox Add-on website.

I’m curious to ask you, why do you use Distraction free YouTube instead of FreeTube? Do you need native YouTube functionality or do you post comments?

Only IceCat and Librewolf

Mastodon rules say for those who have the approved opinions in line with admins, it’s fine to wish death on individuals that Mastodon admins want to see killed.

Mastodon is built on misanthropy, that’s why Mastodon people are a spaz.

I’m completely open to hearing why the Signal update notification is a concern. I don’t worry about it but you may know something that I am not seeing.

Not native Signal but it happens with Signal forks that I install after adding repository to F-Droid, I have had a notification of a Signal update, even though I’m not using native Signal.

I disable that notification in the phone app settings and wait for an F-Droid notification of an update to install.

Where is the download links for the new nightly builds?

Oh excellent, it works again!!

I did notice the livesreams have not been affected, only uploaded videos. I’m waiting for a public release with the fix.

The more personal messengers there are, the more they are all garaunteed to fail and collapse. Stick with pushing Signal into tue collective public zeitgeist, and once strangers on the street ask if you are on Signa, then we can consider other options.

Focus on dethroning Whatsapp and shut up about a messenger that 50 people out of 8 billion people have heard of before.

The pathology of the reply is a psychosis