I tried, it looks very nice, I like it! Thnks
Think I haven't made myself clear enough. I do know there are new versions in
trisquel (although I mainly use Dragora) My questions is: why Ruben's name
doesn't appear on gnuzilla website as comantainer? Also gnuzilla ftp doesn't
have icecat 30 yet. It seems like a trisquel exclusive for
It is indeed strange the website has not been updated yet. Ruben Rodriguez
was announced as the new maintainer of IceCat there:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnu-spotlight-june-2014
Oh yeah I forgot it's not happened yet. If you want to try out IceCat 30 on
Trisquel 6 edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list on your system and add the
line:
deb http://devel.trisquel.info/icecat/toutatis toutatis main
(Notice it's pointing to the devel machine so this isn't something to keep
If you haven't noticed, IceCat version 30 is available in Trisquel 6
Sorry to ressurect this post, but what is the status on this? I don't see any
news on gnuzilla site regarding updates or something.
There's an unoffician IceWeasel for Windows - it's based on
Firefox 3, though.
Does GNU IceCat have a Windows and Mac version?
It didn't look like it from the mirror. I think it would be beneficial to
have a fully-free version of Firefox without the DRM and proprietary plugins
available to our friends who are stuck in non-free OSes.
I was very happy to see a
Probably there just aren't Windows and Mac versions because no one has
volunteered to compile binaries for those systems.
great news!
to join the efforts helps the free community to grow strong, and the IceCat
branding also feels more appealing when I tell others what browser I use.
JXSELF
Thank You for the info.
Brilliant news!
I entered
'sudo apt-get install icecat'
and it's output:
'Package icecat is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source'
How do I go about adding the repo to
Hmm, the sources seem to be down.
Thanks icarolongo Gereon. I forgot Parabola already had Icecat. I'm
switching to it momentarily since Iceweasel-libre has the Australis UI and
Icecat doesn't (yet).
I do not understand LibreJS. It has flagged items on the FSF's website.
Detecting if a script is free/libre or trivial is a difficult task. More
specifically, detecting if something is free/libre depends on very precise
checks and cooperation from the servers distributing the scripts, and
detecting triviality is unreliable. LibreJS has to lean toward blocking
It is here:
[1] http://devel.trisquel.info/icecat/belenos/pool/main/i/icecat/
[2]
http://devel.trisquel.info/icecat/belenos/pool/main/i/icecat/icecat_29.0+gnu1_amd64.deb
[3]
http://devel.trisquel.info/icecat/belenos/pool/main/i/icecat/icecat_29.0+gnu1_i386.deb
GNU IceCat 24.0 is in the Libre Repository of the Parabola Package Database
and installs easily with Pacman.
At Savannah IceCat is under the project name GNUzilla where, as of May 26,
2014, Ruben's name has been added as administrator with Duros.
This is really good news - I've always thought that it was a wasted effort
maintaining both Abrowser and IceCat.
Now that IceCat will be kept more up-to-date maybe it will start to trickle
down into other distributions, possibly replacing IceWeasel one day? That
would be pretty awesome -
This is excellent news! Any word on whether GNU Icecat might also appear in
Parabola at some point? I am really looking forward to a Firefox variant with
all of the DRM bits removed.
I doubt that the Debian Project will remove Iceweasel, as they don't seem to
see any problems.
JXSELF
My following question is a bit off the topic, obviously GNU/LINUX BROWSERS
is a more favorable output and much better and safer browser.
But, for those that are and still using Windows based browsers, What options
do they have?, since Mozilla sold their soul to the DRM Devils?
What options do they have?
The first would be to move to free software. Trisquel would be a good choice.
For free software on Windows there are some options, like:
https://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html
It seems to me,in the near future, there will be only 2 kind of browsers
the
JXSELF
According to the web site, GNU IceCat is currently being maintained by Loic
J. Duros. I'm guessing some updates needs to be done.
True that, but in the grand scheme of things the website change is a small
one.
That is great, it did seem like a waste of time for there to be many
identical browsers which did the same thing. And I agree that GNU Icecat is a
better name.
Will ice dove replace thunderbird?
I wanted to mention that Rubén has been made co-maintanier of GNU IceCat:
https://gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ - This should now mean that IceCat
releases keep up with the upstream releases, much like Abrowser does in
Trisquel.
This is really compliementary work: Since Rubén is already
Oh, I should probably add in that I don't know when new IceCat releases will
start appearing on ftp.gnu.org. I imagine that Rubén will need to some time
to settle in to his new role as co-maintainer first.
Its good that there is no more duplicated effort between the browsers. As for
LibreJS, it is true that it breaks a lot of sites and the methods that it
uses are not ideal. In the past I have talked about how I preferred the
whitelisting feature of NoScript instead.
If some scripts are
IceCat is a much better name :)
I hope the KDE patches get included at some point.
Oh and one other thing I forgot to ask...
Are they planning on liberating Thunderbird as well or are we left to finding
another client or sticking to webmail?
Jquery is whitelisted, depending on the cdn. I think we should focus more on
getting free JS tagged with the appropriate licenses, which is a better
solution than whitelisting.
What is the license of the Abrowser logo? I really like the look of it, but
I've never noticed any license for it. It's probably in the source, but I
wouldn't know where to find it.
I assume the packaging concerns that Ruben had, when the topic of using GNU
IceCat for Trisquel was raised, will be addressed and fixed.
Yes.
Will Trisquel's GNU IceCat ship with GNU LibreJS, like GNU IceCat currently
does?
Yes. My understanding is that the version people download from
Oh, never mind, I won't waste your time asking newbie questions. I'll find it
myself.
Okay, another (sort of) newbie question: I can't find the source for
Abrowser. If I try to download it through the source link on this page
(http://packages.trisquel.info/toutatis-updates/abrowser) I get a 404. On
this page, (http://packages.trisquel.info/toutatis/abrowser) instead of a
Good browser. But, that's it. New browser, new identity.
Just run apt-get source abrowser.
The packages website is broken. The easiest way to get the source is with
apt-get source firefox. Don't use sudo. If you want download links:
Toutatis:
http://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_29.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.2+6.0.1trisquel21.dsc
It seems to be working now that I didn't use sudo.
That's awesome! \o/
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