[Bug-gnuzilla] Audio Issues While Streaming Movies

2019-08-31 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello! While streaming/watching movie on some (more than one) websites, audio has constant cracking sounds and voice of characters in the video becomes robotic. When I stream/watch the same movie on ungoogled-chromium, the audio is just fine. This issue with IceCat has been there for quite some

Missing Tor Button

2019-10-29 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello GNUzilla! I use Guix System (guix.gnu.org) as GNU+Linux OS Distribution. After recent update on Icecat, the Tor button (add-on) disappeared from Icecat. What was the reason? Thank you! Regards, RG. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Missing Tor Button

2019-10-31 Thread Raghav Gururajan
> I have serious concerns about this addon, which I raised previously: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuzilla/2019-01/msg2.html > > I will want to look into what's needed to resolve those, otherwise > I'dstill recommend against it being included in IceCat. But I'd want > todis

Re: Missing Tor Button

2019-10-31 Thread Raghav Gururajan
> Thank you for raising this issue; I had forgotten about it. I > agreethat it's an extremely severe problem. > One possible solution would be to enable DNS-over-HTTPS, which I > believeis supported by IceCat-68 although it's disabled by > default. See: > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fi

Re: Missing Tor Button

2019-10-31 Thread Raghav Gururajan
> 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,

Video Rendering Issues on IceCat

2019-11-03 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Guix and GNUzilla! I am currently using IceCat (68.2.0-guix0-preview3) on Guix System. Starting from version 68.X.X, I started to face issues with playing videos online. This happens on most of the websites (not all though). I get any of these following errors: 1) No compatible source was

Re: Video Rendering Issues on IceCat

2019-11-04 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hi Chris! > Are you actively working on this bug? If you are not, then as a > matter > of etiquette, I think it would be best not to change its severity. I am not. Sorry about that. I read the control-debbugs help page and it mentions that criteria for 'important' is unusablity of the program. S

IceCat: HTTPS Every-where becomes HTTPS No-where :-P

2019-11-06 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Guix and GNUzilla! P.S. Mark, please don't feel pressured. I am just sumbmitting the issue for awareness and tracking. :-) I was using 'HTTPS Everywhere' add-on, with enabled https-only rule. After v68 upgrade, the icon disappears from the tool bar and https-only rule was not in effect as

Re: IceCat: HTTPS Every-where becomes HTTPS No-where :-P

2019-11-06 Thread Raghav Gururajan
> Obviously these are very severe problems, and I will look into them > as > soon as I can. Would it be better to reverse the version just before 68? I remember you mentioned something about security fix in the 68 release; may be for now, it would be better to use the older version with only the

Re: IceCat: HTTPS Every-where becomes HTTPS No-where :-P

2019-11-09 Thread Raghav Gururajan
> It's not feasible for us to do this, because the underlying code has > changed too much between versions 60.x and 68.x. I undderstand. Would it be possible to keep the old version available along sise new version? User can use either or both versions, using profiles. > Also, I just noticed that