GNUzilla - News: IceCat 38.3.0 release

IceCat 38.3.0 release

Item posted by Ruben Rodriguez <rubenquidam> on Tue 13 Oct 2015 04:07:44 AM UTC.

GNUzilla is the GNU version of the Mozilla suite, and GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser. Its main advantage is an ethical one: it is entirely free software. While the Firefox source code from the Mozilla project is free software, they distribute and recommend non-free software as plug-ins and addons. Also their trademark license restricts distribution in several ways incompatible with freedom 0.
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The user manual pages are at http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:IceCat/
You can contribute by joining the wiki and editing the manuals.

Source tarballs, binaries for generic GNU/Linux systems and translations are available at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/38.3.0/
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This is a major release upgrade following the Extended Support Release upstream cycle, moving from v31.x-ESR to v38.x-ESR. All the features in previous releases have been preserved, along with extra polish and improvements in privacy.

Changes since v31.8.0-gnu2

• Rebased to v38.x
• Updated to v38.3.0ESR
• LibreJS updated to 6.0.10.20150620
• HTTPS-Everywhere updated to 5.1.1
• HTML5 Video Everywhere updated to 0.3.3
• Added more privacy settings and crypto hardening

  - Disabled battery handling in dom
  - Disabled sensor handling in dom
  - Disable face detection and autofocus controls
  - Disabled DNS prefetch
  - Disabled ssl/tls protocols that are useless or too weak