> "This was discussed already. IceCat is not packaged the Debian way,
that's
> why it is not in our repos."
> 
> What does that mean?

It means that IceCat includes a huge set of libraries already provided by
the system, wasting space in the live cd and being prone to failure.

> And how is this a problem for Trisquel when it is not
> a  problem for gNewSense, which is likewise Debian/Ubuntu based?

AFAIK gNewSense's browser is Epiphany, and IceCat is provided via an
external
repository.

> Web Browser 3.5? Why should Trisquel users have to get an outdated
version
> of their browser for the next six months, when 3.6 has come out already?

It will ship with whatever version is the official upstream, to have the
same
level of support. Stability and security are more important than
modernity.

> Audio and video tags for Vorbis were supported in FireFox in 3.5 (and
> there has been the Cortado Java plugin for any users that do not yet
have 
> native HTML5 support in their browsers). And in fact, FireFox/IceCat 3.6

> just added full-screen support on top of that. 

That's nice, but Firefox 3.6 (our code upstream) is not available in
Karmic.
We hope to have the 3.6 version or newer in Trisquel 4, Lucid based.

If having a "bleeding edge" version of a free Firefox clone is so
important,
we would support any community effort to maintain such a package/repo. The

official and default browser needs to come from upstream, though.
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