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Pjotr Prins transcribed 650 bytes:
> On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 01:59:24PM -0400, Mike Gerwitz wrote:
> > I use IceCat personally and FF Dev Edition at work.  Until the recent
> > move to WebExtensions, I used the same addons.  I use NoScript and Tor
> > and have no problems.  But I rarely enable JS and never run proprietary
> > JS, so my exposure may be different.  I do not use LibreJS (because I
> > don't usually run JS at all in general and it historically did not play
> > well with NoScript; maybe that has changed).
> 
> Disabling all extensions makes Icecat work much better. I'll try it as
> a default now.
> 
> Question: why do we switch on extensions by default? Sure confused my
> experience.
>
> Pj.

I think it's because this is upstreams decision and we usually stick
with what upstream does. Although you could almost call our Icecat
a variant of Icecat due to more work going into tracking Mozilla
and applying patches done by Mark.