Sorry for the mixup, I was referring to https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/31.8.0/icecat-31.8.0.en-US.win32.zip
which I assumed to be a Win32 binary. On 07/15/2015 01:07 AM, Narcis Garcia wrote: > Ivan, I suppose you have written my name by mistake*, and you were > saying all that to another person. Another possibility is that I > expressed bad in my bad english and you've understood me in the inverse > sense of my thoughts. > > (*) I don't provide Win32 binaries + I agree whole your arguments. > > > El 15/07/15 a les 02:43, Ivan Zaigralin ha escrit: >> Narcis, I am a bit confused by your apparent confusion, even as you seem >> to be providing a Win32 binary. >> >> What I want to say here is my strictly personal opinion, and it does not >> represent the views of other people associated with this project, nor >> those of any organizations I happen to be affiliated with. >> >> I believe that Gnuzilla providing support for either Win32, OS X, or any >> commercial mobile platform is a mistake because it is a total waste of >> the development resources. The following argument would also work for >> any platform which spits on (user) privacy and security. >> >> Sometimes it makes sense to provide free software on a non-free >> platform, especially when it replaces a non-free app (e.g. libreoffice), >> or has no non-free equivalent (e.g. LaTeX). But is there a point at all >> in providing something like IceCat? Its only differences from the stock >> Firefox focus on privacy and security, which the users of non-free >> platforms already gave up completely. Giving a Windoze user IceCat is >> like giving a pillow to a man who jumped from the roof of the Empire >> State. Technically speaking, it will soften the blow, but in practice >> it's just dead weight. When compatibility issues are taken into account, >> there is basically no advantage over the stock Firefox. >> >> This issue reminds me of a lengthy rant I left on the TOR dev list, >> accusing them of, well, incompetence (since I didn't want to assume >> malice right away) for providing Windoze binaries. This was right after >> the big dragnet closed on the drug stores, with (allegedly) hundreds of >> secret services and users unmasked. I argued that giving Windoze users >> TOR is not just useless, but counterproductive, since it gives a >> completely false sense of anonymity where there is absolutely none. As a >> matter of fact, it would be trivial for the law enforcement to update >> Windoze to report and/or poison all local TOR activity, and by now it >> has probably been done. >> >> IceCat for Win32 is definitely not in the same "incompetence" category, >> but unless a case can be made for why it has anything on Firefox in that >> environment, I'll keep calling it a waste. >> >> On 07/12/2015 11:19 AM, Narcis Garcia wrote: >>> "I'm trying to install icecat on Windows 8.1 " >>> >>> WHY ?! >>> >>> >>> El 12/07/15 a les 13:42, John ha escrit: >>>> I'm trying to install icecat on Windows 8.1 >>>> >>>> Steps to produce bug: >>>> 1 Download 31.7.0 win32 zip file >>>> 2 Extract with 7zip >>>> 3 Navigate to the directory *\icecat-31.6.0.en-US.win32\icecat >>>> 4 Run icecat.exe as administrator >>>> Result: >>>> 1 My mouse will have a hourglass symbol and I'm able to find >>>> icecat.exe in task manager for 1 second >>>> 2 Normal cursor returns and icecat isn't found in taskmanager. There >>>> is no trade of me ever having tried to run icecat.exe >>>> >>>> I've tried running in various Windows comparability modes and version >>>> 31.6.0. I still get the same result. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org >>> >>> -- >>> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org >> > > -- > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org >
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