> It was not intentional.  I cannot speak for the IceCat project, but
> Ithink it's safe to say that they intend to continue including the
> Torbutton in IceCat.

I see.
> There are several unresolved issues in Guix's preview of IceCat-
> 68,which has *not* yet been released by the IceCat project, and
> probablydoes not yet meet the privacy standards of the IceCat
> project.  The onlyreason I updated to this unfinished version in Guix
> was because thealternative (leaving users to use a browser with many
> published securityflaws) seemed worse.

I understand. It was a good call though.

> 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'spreview of IceCat-68.

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> Regarding the Tor button, I guess that it has something to do with
> thefollowing 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.

Sure, I can try.

> 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.

I always had to download extensions from there.Is there a unique place
to download extensions for IceCat?
Regards,RG.

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