Hi Raghav, Raghav Gururajan <[email protected]> writes:
> I use Guix System (guix.gnu.org) as GNU+Linux OS Distribution. > After recent update on Icecat, the Tor button (add-on) disappeared from > Icecat. > What was the reason? It was not intentional. I cannot speak for the IceCat project, but I think it's safe to say that they intend to continue including the Tor button in IceCat. There are several unresolved issues in Guix's preview of IceCat-68, which has *not* yet been released by the IceCat project, and probably does not yet meet the privacy standards of the IceCat project. The only reason I updated to this unfinished version in Guix was because the alternative (leaving users to use a browser with many published security flaws) seemed worse. I'm currently overloaded with other urgent tasks unrelated to IceCat, but I'm doing what I can to gradually fix the remaining issues in Guix's preview of IceCat-68. Regarding the Tor button, I guess that it has something to do with the following message, which I see printed in the text output when I run 'icecat' manually from a shell: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- 1572378945089 addons.xpi-utils WARN addMetadata: Add-on tortm-browser-button@jeremybenthum is invalid: Error: Invalid addon ID: expected addon ID tortm-browser-button@jeremybenthum, found undefined in manifest(resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIDatabase.jsm:2715:15) JS Stack trace: [email protected]:2715:15 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Would you like to look into it? I would be grateful for the help. In the meantime, you could try installing the extension from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tortm-browser-button/ although I caution that many addons on that site are nonfree software, so please make sure to always check the licenses. Mark
