On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 05:20:24PM +1000, Riley Baird wrote: > On Tue, 08 Sep 2015 08:58:46 +0200 > Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> wrote: > > > Riley Baird writes: > > > > >> Is there any reason (other than lack of manpower) that GNU IceCat is not > > >> packaged in Debian? > > >> > > >> I understand Debian has IceWeasel to (primarily?) fix the Firefox > > >> trademark issue and to have a mechanism to deal with security backports. > > >> > > >> IceCat has diverged from Firefox/Iceweasel and has a different feature > > >> set than both, so it would seem reasonable to have it available through > > >> Debian. > > > > > > Would it really be worth it? There aren't that many changes: > > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git/tree/makeicecat > > > > The entire tree contains a number of other things: > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git/tree/ > > > > For example some privacy/security default settings: > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git/tree/data/settings.js > > Ah, that's a good set of default settings. Perhaps a modified > settings.js and an explanation of how to use it could be included with > the iceweasel package?
+1 > > Also, what advantages does IceCat have over the Tor Browser? (Debian > doesn't have the Tor Browser either, due to the impossibility of long > term maintenance, but just wondering.) Have a look at torbrowser-launcher in synaptic -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning.