Libre Browsers Libre Formats

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These days there are several free software browsers available. It's important to use browsers which support media formats not encumbered by patents. This page documents browsers which are highly featured, have graphical interfaces, and support free formats.

Free browsers, caveat free

GNU IceCat

GNU Icecat is a free browser based on Mozilla's Firefox. It contains several privacy enhancements and includes extensions like LibreJS turned on by default.

It is sometimes a bit behind Firefox in releases.


Chromium

Chromium is a free browser. (It should *NOT* be confused with Google Chrome, which shares a codebase with Chromium but is not free software.)


Free browsers, with caveats

Firefox

Jason Self will fill in his opinions here ;)


Browsers to avoid

These browsers are entirely nonfree. You may hear recommendations to use them. Please avoid them, and instead use one of the above browsers.

  • Google Chrome
  • Safari
  • Internet Explorer
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