it has been discussed on the IRC, a plan to collaborate more closely with gnuzilla to unify the patches across these browsers, and to discuss solutions to any new tricks and/or anti-features that mozilla throws at us - this would, presumably, reduce redundant efforts, and at the same time, provide a nice reference for other distros that patch firefox per the FSDG
ideally, this would make iceweasel and abrowser essentially the same browser with different branding - in reality, they are very similar already; but this unification would serve to codify precisely which changes are necessary to meet the FSDG, and what are some sensible privacy-related defaults the lead developer of gnuzilla was cool with the idea (he said it would actually be a good opportunity to review and discard any unnecessary patching), and when i suggested a new mailing list, he showed me there was already a 'gnuzilla-dev' mailing list[1] - that is currently used only for automated notices; but those will be stopped in order to use that list for these discussions anyone who is interested in packaging icecat or iceweasel (or may someday be the one relegated to that dubious task), and anyone who may like to voice their opinion (aka. bike-shed) about which features should be enabled or disabled, what the home page should look like, what is the default search engine, etc is encouraged to subscribe to that list [1]: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuzilla-dev _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
