Icecat Javascript and Google

Hmm, the problem seems to go away if I enable the add-ons, such as
https-everywhere and the others that come with icecat... All rather
weird.

On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 11:46 +0800, Daemonax wrote:
> Hmm, I don't think it's that... Gmail functionality seems to be fine in
> both webbrowser and icecat on Trisquel 4.5, not a problem there. I have
> also tried gmail and google.com on Trisquel 5.0 which just has icecat,
> and I get the same problem, so it seems to be icecat.
>
> Here are two screenshots showing the differences.
>
>
> GNU Icecat
> http://ompldr.org/vOXJrMg
>
> Webbrowser
> http://ompldr.org/vOXJrMw
>
> On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 21:26 -0600, Allan Aguilar wrote:
> > name at domain writes:
> >
> > > It seems like javascript is disabled in icecat, at least for google.com.
> > > There is no instant search, and I can't have my customised homepage or other
> > > stuff.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know how to fix this? I've checked preferences and javascript is
> > > enabled, and checked in about:config, but couldn't see anything there that
> > > should cause any problems.
> >
> > Hello, <name at domain>:
> >
> > I _suppose_ this happens as a way from the GNU Project to prevent the
> > JavaScript Trap on Google [1], but I'm not really sure... Which version of
> > Trisquel GNU/Linux and of GNU IceCat are you using (I don't have GNU IceCat
> > available on 4.0).
> >
> > [1] https://fsf.org/blogs/community/gmail-jstrap/
> >
>
>

Okay, it seems to be the GNU Gnuzilla Privacy extension, if that's
disabled it causes the problem... With it enabled I have had other
problems though, before it would not let me switch from German Google to
English Google.

Have just tested that, and it seems to still stop me from switching to
English Google.

What a pain all this is...

This is why I like plain vanilla browsers, without add-ons which so
often cause little annoyances like this.

On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 11:46 +0800, Daemonax wrote:
> Hmm, I don't think it's that... Gmail functionality seems to be fine in
> both webbrowser and icecat on Trisquel 4.5, not a problem there. I have
> also tried gmail and google.com on Trisquel 5.0 which just has icecat,
> and I get the same problem, so it seems to be icecat.
>
> Here are two screenshots showing the differences.
>
>
> GNU Icecat
> http://ompldr.org/vOXJrMg
>
> Webbrowser
> http://ompldr.org/vOXJrMw
>
> On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 21:26 -0600, Allan Aguilar wrote:
> > name at domain writes:
> >
> > > It seems like javascript is disabled in icecat, at least for google.com.
> > > There is no instant search, and I can't have my customised homepage or other
> > > stuff.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know how to fix this? I've checked preferences and javascript is
> > > enabled, and checked in about:config, but couldn't see anything there that
> > > should cause any problems.
> >
> > Hello, <name at domain>:
> >
> > I _suppose_ this happens as a way from the GNU Project to prevent the
> > JavaScript Trap on Google [1], but I'm not really sure... Which version of
> > Trisquel GNU/Linux and of GNU IceCat are you using (I don't have GNU IceCat
> > available on 4.0).
> >
> > [1] https://fsf.org/blogs/community/gmail-jstrap/
> >
>
>