abrowser privacy settings tab

In the "Home" section of Abrowser's "Preferences" (that you can access from its "burger" menu), you can set the home page or the page for new tabs as Abrowser's default (with the settings you want).

Hi,

the thing is that I have already set it to Abrowser's default. I didn't change anything prior/after the update, so something in the abrowser update changed the settings .. I also don't see any option in about:preferences#home regarding the privacy settings tab.

Thanks for any help !

Hi,

yes I've tried new tab, new window, pressing home button - the result is still the same. I guess I'll try to reinstall abrowser.

Cheers

I've reinstalled it with apt-get remove / apt-get install, it still looks the same, not sure what else to do. Is there any manual way on how to check / readd it ? Is it a kind of extension/addon or something else ?

Hello, I'm experiencing the same issue after updating to Abrowser 64. I guess I'll have to use the good 'ol about:config

I think I was trying on the first execution of version 64. Now, I cannot get the initial configuration either.

Yes, I think this came up in the developer meeting on Friday.

As you can see below, it's gone people. Removing and re-adding Abrowser isn't going to bring it back. You can blame Mozilla (the "upstream" he mentions.)

quidam: well, I worked on abrowser quite a lot but got into big issues
quidam: the system that we use for the privacy settings pannel on about:newtab has been removed upstream
quidam: the replacement requires a whole rework of the feature
quidam: it is far from trivial
quidam: so I think we should just release without that feature for now
quidam: it also cannot be reimplemented as an extension
quidam: I think we need the updates to the package just for security sake
quidam: and we will have to work on the feature replacement whenever

Thanks guys :). I guess I just stick to latest IceCat 52.3.0 (64-bit), afaik it's using ESR version of FF, so this "privacy tab" is still there.

However when compared to Abrowser it seems to be considerably slower.

There's a firefox extension called "Privacy Settings" that I was able to install on abrowser that gives instant access to some important privacy settings: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-settings/?src=search

It's not in the abrowser culled list of libre acceptible extensions. It's licensed under Mozilla Public License 2.0. FSF website posted an article saying that MPL2.0 is GPL3 compatible - is that still accurate?

Maybe it could be reviewed for possible inclusion in the abrowser list of acceptable libre extensions. Github is here: https://github.com/schomery/privacy-settings

So far I was not able to compile/install IceCat 60.3, I've installed multiple packages required to compile, until I've reached this error:

ERROR: Could not find LLVM/Clang installation for compiling stylo build-time
bindgen. Please specify the 'LLVM_CONFIG' environment variable
(recommended), pass the '--with-libclang-path' and '--with-clang-path'
options to configure, or put 'llvm-config' in your PATH. Altering your
PATH may expose 'clang' as well, potentially altering your compiler,
which may not be what you intended

I have both clang and llvm installed. Trying the mach bootstrap ended up with 'NotImplementedError: Bootstrap support for this Linux distro not yet available'

Any idea on how to fix / compile it ?

Cheers

another update, It turned out I didn't have the 'llvm' installed (I had llvm-config). After the installation of llvm packge, it looks like it's worthless anyway:

ERROR: llvm installation 3.8.0 is incompatible with Stylo bindgen.

To compile Stylo, please install version 3.9.0 or greater of
Clang + LLVM and ensure that the 'llvm-config' from that
installation is first on your path.

You can verify this by typing 'llvm-config --version'.

Hi, I just found out that when installing the 'llvm',
by default it installs 3.8, but it's possible to specify the version e.g 'llvm-3.9'. I'll continue tomorrow, it looks like I'm tired :)

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/icecat/60.3.0/icecat-60.3.0.en-US.gnulinux-i686.tar.bz2 (32 bits) and https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/icecat/60.3.0/icecat-60.3.0.en-US.gnulinux-x86_64.tar.bz2 (64 bits) are precompiled. Just extract the archive relating to your architecture ('arch', executed in a terminal would tell) and execute the "icecat" file in it. You can then create a launcher.

Thanks Magic Banana, it runs perfectly (and u saved me some time since I don't have to compile on my own).

I also really like a TPRB extension which blocks requests to 3rd party domain without my consent - it's really cool and convenient to use ! I was not aware of this extension till now.