Re: IceCat-68.2.0-guix0-preview2 now available via GNU Guix

2019-10-31 Thread Gary Driggs
2:41 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > > Hi Gary, > > Gary Driggs writes: >> Kudos for your work on this, Mark. Is there any chance that this is >> also available on a source code repository? > > I can understand the desire for this, but I personally do not have the >

Re: IceCat-68.2.0-guix0-preview2 now available via GNU Guix

2019-10-29 Thread Gary Driggs
Kudos for your work on this, Mark. Is there any chance that this is also available on a source code repository?

Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] IceCat 45.7.0 release

2017-03-16 Thread Gary Driggs
On Mar 15, 2017, Ivan Zaigralin wrote: > Absolutely anything you can direct your computer to do from within window$, > micro$oft can do remotely, surreptuously, and *trivially* in the technical > sense. I eagerly await a link to the data you have collected that proves your curious

Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] IceCat 45.7.0 release

2017-03-06 Thread Gary Driggs
On Mar 5, 2017, Daniel Quintiliani wrote: > Please reconsider your discontinuation of Windows and Mac versions, as libre > browsing is most needed in DRM-based OSes, not Linux :( The source is still available for compilation on any platform. -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org

Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] IceCat browser default on Windows 7?

2016-12-30 Thread Gary Driggs
Narcis Garcia wrote: > > IceCat 45 must have vulnerabilities too, and then someone will ask for > Icecat 52, etc. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-95/-- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org

Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] IceCat browser default on Windows 7?

2016-12-30 Thread Gary Driggs
mailing list opinions. We >>> should also focus on who the decision makers actually are, to my knowledge >>> Ruben has been busy lately but someone can easily say "Why should we >>> maintain a Windows or Mac version of IceCat?" and be confused for someone >

Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] IceCat browser default on Windows 7?

2016-12-29 Thread Gary Driggs
Daniel Quintiliani wrote: > > Ruben having discontinued Windows support for IceCat was the best and easiest > way to force most of the human population into DRM. Where did you see any such announcement? Maybe we should start an alternate mailing list, political-gnuzi...@gnu.org, so the rest

Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] IceCat browser default on Windows 7?

2016-12-12 Thread Gary Driggs
Tails is pretty easy to use; https://tails.boum.org/ > On Dec 12, 2016, at 2:15 PM, Daniel Quintiliani wrote: > > Seems like a lot of work and reading material for a Windows user who just > wants to browse the web and not have to worry about corporate and government >

Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] [VOTE] Tor code base

2016-11-14 Thread Gary Driggs
I see this project having more in common with the Trisquel browser project than TOR browser. I haven't seen anyone list the pros or cons so I'll have to vote against if it's just arbitrary. -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org

Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Build Spyblock from uBlock Origin

2016-10-04 Thread Gary Driggs
On Oct 4, 2016, Daniel Quintiliani wrote: > > What is wrong with uBlock Origin? It seems to work a lot better than the old > Adblock Edge which was similar to Spyblock, plus it covers additional stuff > like webRTC, beacons, prefetching, etc It's great! I've been using it for years & it's

Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Firefox for iOS

2015-11-17 Thread Gary Driggs
On Nov 17, 2015, at 6:12 AM, David Hedlund wrote: > I suggest IceCat for iOS based on Firefox for iOS. Unless drastic changes have been made in iOS 9, you aren't able to use a different rendering engine when you build a browser for iOS. So Firefox for iOS is really just a reskinned Safari.

Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Ice Cat communication

2015-11-17 Thread Gary Driggs
PCAP or it didn't happen. ;-) > On Nov 16, 2015, at 11:36 PM, Narcis Garcia wrote: > > Version? > Platform? > > > El 16/11/15 a les 16:53, family.sm ha escrit: >> Hi >> Icecap is sending many paquets through the Linux android kernel instead >> through the vpn, like

Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Suggestion for default search engine

2015-03-11 Thread Gary Driggs
I have found ixquick to turn up better anonymized results than others I've used -- including DDG. https://ixquick.com/eng/aboutixquick/ On Mar 11, 2015, at 6:10 AM, Rubén Rodríguez ru...@gnu.org wrote: El mié, 11-03-2015 a las 05:02 +, rocket_peng...@riseup.net escribió: Did anyone

Re: IceCat 5.0.1

2011-08-04 Thread Gary Driggs
What’s New in Firefox The latest version of Firefox has the following changes: Worked around an issue in Mac OS X 10.7 that couldcause Firefox to crash Worked around an issue caused by Apple's Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 5 where the Java plugin would not be loaded

Re: five?

2011-06-22 Thread Gary Driggs
It looks like security updates for Firefox 4 are discontinued already... http://m.computerworld.com/s/article/9217837/Mozilla_retires_Firefox_4_from_security_support -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org

Re: Open containing folder

2011-04-14 Thread Gary Driggs
On Apr 14, 2011, Shailesh Ghadge wrote: i am getting a prompt for choosing application to open link. Should it not directly open the folder(containing the file) using file manager? There's no way for the browser to guess which file manager comes with your OS (if any) so you'll want to

Re: [icecat privacy feature] managing super-cookies

2010-08-30 Thread Gary Driggs
On Aug 30, 2010, at 8:46 AM, Nicolás Reynolds wrote: couldn't it be done by forbidding flash cookies altogether? I would suspect that Flash cookies are handled by Flash or gnash plugins the browser and/or another plugin wouldn't have any control over them. -Gary -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org