Hi Mike, Mike Gerwitz <m...@gnu.org> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:03:07 +0200, Clément Lassieur wrote: >> Firefox 52 isn't supported anymore upstream[1] and we don't have a >> package for Firefox 60. Currently the only alternative is Epiphany but >> it's close to unusable (it crashes every 5 minutes, and sometimes >> freezes my computer). > > This is a big problem. Thanks for keeping up with the status. > > I'll get into contact with the necessary people on behalf of GNU to > figure out the current status of IceCat. Thank you! > But as was stated in another thread, once we _do_ have an updated IceCat > source distribution, we need it packaged for Guix, and that is quite the > undertaking. Has anyone pursued packaging modern versions of vanilla FF > in recent months? The problem is a technical problem. We would have with Icecat 60 the same packaging difficulties we have with Firefox 60. Whether we choose Icecat or Firefox is unrelated. Clément
