> As I understand it Chromium has freedom issues
Could you please explain what freedom issues (apart from the one mentioned by
me) there are? I have always thought Chromium is FLOSS.
> Firefox has known issues, but as free software can be modified to remove
any antifeatures.
But I am not a programmer. And it seems no programmer has taken care to
remove them, yet the vendors claim it is free software respecting privacy and
people believe that. My test proves that it is not. And that the vendor not
only doesn't care but would rather argue with proven and close the ticket.
> Have you tried the same privacy tests on any other Firefox forks?
Yes - IceCat, Waterfox. IceCat also does background communication on startup.
Waterfox shows the same behavior as Firefox.
> Tor Browser should be the most privacy-respecting.
Using uMatrix's background log I noticed that Tor Browser also sends behind
the scenes packets. I don't know if they go through the Tor network but in
any case - they are sent, without prior (or any) consent. Some of them were
to Mozilla's servers. I haven't tested further or in more detail.
> Liferea's internal browser has JS enabled by default, but it can be disbled
under Tools->Preferences->Browser.
Thanks. I also just found QuiteRSS which has built in browser in which JS can
be disabled. But to my mind the very fact that the RSS reader has support for
JS makes me stay away from it. Perhaps I need to find an command line tool or
get rid of RSS totally...
