> Icecat *sources* are available up to current Firefox versions or near to.
Oh, I see. Man, I don't know how you guys can stand using old software just because your distros' repos only have old software. I decided to definitively switch to a rolling release distro (Parabola) now, I hope I never have to look back... Since I didn't know Icecat could actually not suck (I'm guessing more up-to-date versions should work just like the vanilla browser,) I ended up simply manually installing Mozilla Firefox and avoiding non-libre add-ons. I wish there was a your-freedom add-on for Firefox that prevented me from installing other non-libre add-ons, but I can live without that for now. I also really like the stock Mozilla branding... Atenciosamente / Sincerely, Guilherme Prá Vieira <http://www.linkedin.com/in/n2liquid> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/n2liquid> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:48 PM, kpb <k...@sohcahtoa.org.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 02:56 -0300, Guilherme Vieira wrote: > > Hi there! I'd like to know why IceCat must be so old compared to > > vanilla Firefox. Isn't it just supposed to be Firefox rebranded, with > > some add-ons preinstalled, and without offers to install non-libre > > add-ons? > > > > > > Atenciosamente / Sincerely, > > Guilherme Prá Vieira > > Hello Guilherme, Dave and All > > Mozilla themselves appear to be able to compile and package current > Firefox binaries that work fine on Debian Squeeze and even on CentOS > 5.10, so I'm sure it must be *possible* to compile current versions of > Icecat on gNewSense. > > Icecat *sources* are available up to current Firefox versions or near > to. Googling compiling Icecat 24 on gNewSense gives me this link > > http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.gnuzilla > > ...so I went with version 17.0.1 because Iceweasel 17 is in the Debian > Squeeze backports repository. I will try v24 myself and try to reproduce > the bug. > > @Sam, I'll request an account and modify the wiki page with instructions > for compiling Icecat 17.0.1. > > PS: a few months ago, I had never actually compiled any software. > gNewSense use certainly promotes learning :-} > > Cheers > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Sam Geeraerts > > <sam...@elmundolibre.be> wrote: > > Op Sun, 16 Feb 2014 19:43:57 +0000 > > schreef kpb <k...@sohcahtoa.org.uk>: > > > > > I've found it possible to compile Icecat 17.0.1 on gNewSense > > 3.1 > > > 64bit by following the wiki instructions at > > > > > > http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Documentation/IceCat > > > > > > just *leave out the source code patch* steps as gNewSense 3 > > has a > > > compiler version recent enough for this code. YASM still > > needs to be > > > compiled as 0.8 is in the gNewSense 3 repository. > > > > > > Feel free to update our wiki page. I think it's safe to assume > > that > > users are more interested in IceCat 17 than 14. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gNewSense-users mailing list > > gNewSense-users@nongnu.org > > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > gNewSense-users@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users >
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