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OK. I'm using ABrowser on Trisquel, and let me tell you some stuff
related to this Firefox fork:
1.- Abrowser does have a broken system with Firefox Sync service. For
those that want to migrate from Firefox to Iceweasel, this issue is
annoying.
2.- Abrowser is having some performance issues in the multiprocess
(a.k.a. "Electrolysis"). By the way, the most logical way to use an
alternative to Firefox is still fork the Debian edition of Firefox into
Iceweasel, due to the Debian edition of Firefox optimizes many of the
source code for porting into plattaforms that are not exclusively x86
(i686 and x86_64).
3.- Abrowser actually is updated into the 52.0.2 version. However, the
Parabola version of Iceweasel is based on the Debian version of Firefox
release, which is in the unstable branch of Debian that keeps up-to-date
the Firefox version.
El 22/04/17 a las 10:20, Luke Shumaker escribió:
Hi all,
Someone reported via parabolaweb that Iceweasel is out of date, so I
began to look in to how to update it (having been the original
packager of Iceweasel when it first came to Parabola; before handing
it off to Emulatorman).
When I first added Iceweasel, it was by mimicking ConnOS (our then
sister distro), and imported Debian's rebranded Firefox.
(This had the added benefit that Debian applied portability patches
to support architectures that Firefox upstream didn't support; this
was very useful when we had MIPS support)
However, ConnOS no longer exists as an Arch derivative (it shut down
for a while, then came back as a Gentoo derivative), and Iceweasel no
longer exists in Debian; Debian now ships proper Firefox. I hadn't
realized that about a year ago "Debian Iceweasel" became "Parabola
Iceweasel" and Emulatorman began maintaning the Iceweasel patches
outside of Debian.
Trisquel Abrowser is Trisquel's rebranded Firefox (and is distinct
from (the former?) Ubuntu Abrowser). It is maintained by quidam, who
is also the maintainer of GNU IceCat. We always had to maintain a set
of patches *on top of* Debian's patches, to address FSDG concerns; if
we import from Trisquel, that maintenance effort goes away.
(I also expect this to take care of architecture-patching; Trisquel
inheritys from Ubuntu which inherits from Debian; but it this isn't
a sure thing, it is possible that we may have to still deal with
pathing for ARM.)
I think that it makes sense to cooperate with Trisquel, rather than
duplicate the effort.
As for having both Abrowser and IceCat; Abrowser tracks the latest
Firefox release, IceCat tracks Firefox-ESR (Extended Support Release).
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