GNUzilla is the GNU version of the Mozilla suite, and GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser. Its main advantage is an ethical one: it is entirely free software. While the Firefox source code from the Mozilla project is free software, they distribute and recommend non-free software as plug-ins and add-ons. Also their trademark license restricts distribution in ways that hinder freedom 0.
GNU IceCat has multiple practical advantages as well, such as better privacy and security settings, extensive blocking of sites that may track the user's browsing habits, or the inclusion of LibreJS and other extensions that help browse without running non-free JavaScript. The user manual pages are at http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:IceCat/ Please contribute by joining the wiki and editing the manuals. Source tarballs, binaries for generic GNU/Linux systems and translations are available at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/ GPG key fingerprint: 318C 679D 94F1 7700 CC84 7DE6 46A7 0073 E4E5 0D4E https://savannah.gnu.org/project/memberlist-gpgkeys.php?group=gnuzilla ========= This is the 60.7.0 ESR release of GNU IceCat, an incremental upgrade of the 60.x Extended Support Release, containing the following changes: * Added extra build fail-safes * Do not include the Debian package specifics * Corrected description for "tracking protection" on on-boarding page* Hardened privacy settings: spoof referrers by default, isolate requests to first party origin, and disable sending the origin header to the HTTP server.
* Updated extensions bundle: - "LibreJS" updated to 7.19rc3, Now with Android support!- Added "ViewTube" + "disable-polymer-youtube" extensions, which allow to browse and play YouTube videos without JavaScript
- "TorButton" updated to 0.1. - "HTTPS Everywhere" updated to 2019.1.31 - Improved interface for "Reveal hidden HTML"- "Third Party Request Blocker" configured to allow requests sub-domains of the same site, known CDN servers (this is fine since we don't send referrers or origin headers), CSS files, and YouTube resource servers.
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