On 16/05/13 06:57, [email protected] wrote:
Can anyone tell me the difference between IceCat and IceWeasel,
perhaps give a few comments?
thanks.
Iceweasel (without a capital W) is a rebranded copy of Firefox used in
Debian. The version used in stable has backported security fixes made by
the Debian team (since Debian typically uses versions unsupported by
Mozilla) and is modified to meet the Debian packaging standards.
gNewSense 3.0 (based on Debian Squeeze) will use Iceweasel, but patched
to meet the free distribution standards (for example, it won't recommend
proprietary add-ons).
IceCat (formerly IceWeasel with a capital W, but rebranded to be less
confusing) is a rebranded copy of Firefox by the GNU Project. It's
currently maintained by Loic J Duros, the creator of LibreJS. Its aim is
to meet to free distribution standards and include privacy-focused add-ons.
At the moment Trisquel uses Abrowser, a rebranded copy of Ubuntu's
Firefox browser (with Ubufox and Unity integration patches, and modified
to meet the Ubuntu packaging standards). AFAIK Ubuntu's Firefox uses
some of the Debian Iceweasel scripts. I am hoping that one day the
Ubufox and Unity integration patches can be put into IceCat, so that
IceCat can be used in Trisquel instead.
