It can be interesing Icecat to be a torbrowser derivative (or together) instead of being alone Firefox derivative.
What about ESR-only versions policy? El 13/08/16 a les 21:47, ng0 ha escrit: > Hi, > > I had an exchange of ideas with other people after the recent security > announcement of firefox[2]. > The state of torbrowser was brought up in Guix as a problem and a > discussion before, in the attempt to figure out how to package > torbrowser compatible to our system. > > It was pointed out to me that the team which develops torbrowser is > working together with mozilla to upstream their patchset[0][1]. > With this new development and the importance of networks like tor, > it would be a logic choice to switch to torbrowser as upstream of > icecat and follow their development. > At least that's one alternative I can come up with. > This will of course not be torbrowser in its original form, as > adjustments are made. Wether this differs from upstream in the default > unique fingerprint of the browser has to be monitored, but I am not > suggesting to build another torbrowser, just to use it as a more recent, > well maintained firefox codebase for icecat. > For your information, torbrowser recently switched to follow a different > version of firefox than in the last years. > > I don't know about the size of your development team, it is assumed that > it is rather small? In any case, if you need help with tasks, there are > certainly some people interested in helping to make the transition to a > new version. Personally I have limited resources, so I can only be of > limited help. > > I do believe that torbrowser might also benefit from this if tb is > chosen as upstream and fixes are upstreamed to either firefox or > torbrowser depending on the nature of the fix. > > I am aware that this message does not cover every detail I have talked > about on other lists and off-list, but I'd like to get in contact with > you on this topic. > > > Additional question, what's needed to get into the store which icecat > uses? http://patrol.psyced.org/ is a extension which provides more > functionality than https-everywhere. torbrowser 6.0.3 does not use > firefox 48 as a base, but they might be working on a solution for the > forced extensions+addons signing already which will start with FF 48. > > > [0]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1260929 > [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1173199 > [2]: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-08/msg00277.html > > > thanks and greetings, > -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
