It's a very good news that Ruben is taking care of the IceCat project. I'm a bulk desktops installer, and this year I had the Gnuzilla packages installation completely abandoned.
I hope that can set this internet suite (or only web browser) as default for next users. El 08/10/14 a les 01:56, Rubén Rodríguez ha escrit: > After many small changes and improvements I managed to produce a new > release for IceCat, available (by now) here: > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org/releases/31.1.1/ > > I'd like to get some testing and feedback before doing the official > release, also to get time to update the documentation. > > Some notes: > > - It is based on Firefox 31 ESR. I decided to stick to the ESR upstream > releases (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/) > because they provide security updates over a stable base. This way we > won't have to fight with changes in the APIs we base our features on. > That will also eventually allow to port privacy features from > TorBrowser, which is being upgraded to follow v31 ESR too. > > - To filter privacy trackers I modified Adblock Plus to allow filter > subscriptions to be optionally enabled during Private Browsing mode. I > did some other small changes, along with removing the "acceptable ads" > pseudofeature. Because of all this I decided to rebrand the extension to > "Spyblock", to avoid confusion with the upstream project. > I also set custom lists at http://gnuzilla.gnu.org/filters/ and I made a > point of preserving self-served advertisement, as the goal is not to > block ads but to preserve privacy. That's another reason for rebranding. > > - I compiled binary packages for GNU/Linux using Trisquel 6, both for 32 > and 64 bit. Those binaries should work in most recent distros. These are > the ones I'm more certain that should work: Trisquel 6 and 7, Ubuntu > Precise or newer, Debian Wheezy, testing and sid. Please test in other > distros and send reports of success and any bugs you find. > > - Video in h264 format (youtube, vimeo...) only shows a black screen in > my machines, but so do the precompiled Firefox bundles, so I guess they > need to be compiled in a less "portable" way for that feature to work. > It seems to work when packaged for Trisquel. > > - Packagers are welcome! We want to get the package in other distros and > also compiled for MacOS and Windows. > > Happy testing! > > > -- > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org > -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
