Thanks a bunch, Rubén :) It looks like it's a complete success on Slackware x64. Switching to ESR was a great decision, IMHO.
On 10/07/2014 11:54 PM, Narcis Garcia wrote: > 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 >
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