IceCat to be in Fedora
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Another win for free software: http://fedoraos.wordpress.com/2014/09/02/gnu-icecat-browser-is-finally-on-fedora/
Don't really know if this is so great... the last time I looked it up, icecat was horribly outdated compared to firefox and on top of that, its default configuration is hardly usable since it includes LibreJS.
If you consider LibreJS to be the solution for the non-free javascript problem, then you basically decide not to use the internet at all.
You didn't see the news, quantumgravity? IceCat is being maintained by Ruben (quidam) now, the guy who maintains Trisquel and was previously maintaining Abrowser.
Also, LibreJS has improved substantially; it lets you whitelist particular scripts now. Have you tried it recently? :)
LibreJS was annoying when I tried it as it blocked everything including popular libraries under free software licenses.
Is this fixed? Does it whitelist certain JavaScript CDNs like NoScript? I'm talking about ajax.googleapis.com, ajax.aspnetcdn.com, and cdnjs.cloudflare.com.
It's still got work to do (for example, the reason I still don't use it is the script whitelist doesn't work on certain inline scripts due to a bug), but it's improving.
LibreJS whitelists scripts based on a hash of the file's contents, not what url it comes from. It wouldn't make sense to make whitelist entry for all scripts coming from ajax.googleapis.com -- how would we know that those scripts are properly licensed?
It's true. Thank's to these fine folks, I'm typeing this from IceCat 31.0. :)
And it’s a family computer, so don’t chivvy me.
Great news! That will make things super easy for distributions like BLAG also if they want to ship with IceCat.
Don't forget about CentOS and RHEL as they both use Fedora as the base.
Can anyone tell me if there is a way to install Icecat in other versions of Linux from the terminal? I cant find anything that works.
This depends on the distribution. Can you give some details?
I would like to try it in Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS.
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