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 ways that hinder freedom 0.
GNU IceCat has multiple practical advantages as well, such as better privacy and security settings, extensive blocking of sites that may track the user's browsing habits, or the inclusion of LibreJS and other extensions that help browse without running non-free javascript.
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This is a pre-release for version 60.2.0 of GNU IceCat, available at http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/60.2.0/
This release contains substantial design and usability changes from the previous major version (v52.x ESR) so I'm publishing it at alpha.gnu.org to request testing and comments before moving it to ftp.gnu.org. Source Code plus binaries for GNU/Linux x86 and x86_64 are available.
The main differences (other than those provided from upstream changes from v52.x to v60.x) are:
Thanks to Giorgio Maone, Nathan Nichols, Nyk Nyby and Zach Wick for their contribution to LibreJS and IceCat, and happy testing!
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. https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
The user manual pages are at http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:IceCat/
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- https://www.xudongz.com/blog/2017/idn-phishing/
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/45.5.1/
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This release introduces few changes aside of the major upgrade from v38 to v45, which required changes to the branding, aboutIcecat pages,
spyblock, internationalization build system and search plugins.
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/
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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.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
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/38.7.1/
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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.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
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/38.6.0/
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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.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
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/38.5.0/
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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. https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
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/38.4.0/
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* Updated to v38.4.0ESR
* LibreJS updated to 6.0.10
* Upgraded the debian directory to match v38 changes
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https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
The user manual pages are at http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:IceCat/
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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.
- 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
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.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
The user manual pages are at http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:IceCat/
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Source tarballs, binaries for generic GNU/Linux systems and translations are available at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/31.8.0-gnu2/
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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.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
The user manual pages are at http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:IceCat/
You can contribute by joining the wiki and editing the manuals.
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/31.8.0/
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Also applied the the upstream fixes listed upstream at:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/
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https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
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/31.7.0/
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Other than applying the upstream fixes listed here https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/ the changes for this version were to fix the build process to make the translation packages work properly.
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On a personal note, I have to apologize for the delay on this release which comes from the fact that I spent most of the last couple of months preparing to move to the United States -which happened last week- and get married -which will happen in 3 hours!
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/
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Other than applying the upstream fixes listed here
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/
the only change for this release is the removal of the CNNIC root certificates, as explained at http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/03/maintaining-digital-certificate-security.html
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/03/23/revoking-trust-in-one-cnnic-intermediate-certificate
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.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
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/31.5.0/
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The main improvement in this version is the support for Windows, MacOS and Android, which added to GNU/Linux cover most user platforms. All versions are cross-compiled from GNU/Linux, so only free software is used for building. The published binaries have been tested for:
Binaries for Trisquel, Parabola and Fedora will be provided by the distros as usual.
Thanks to the developers of TorBrowser, on which the multiplatform support was based!
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. https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
Source tarballs, binaries for generic GNU/Linux systems and translations are available at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/31.4.0/
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The most noticeable change for the users in this release would be the addition of the html5-video-everywhere, that allows video playback from several popular services without either Flash or JavaScript.
The user manual pages are at http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:IceCat/
You can contribute by joining the wiki and editing the manuals.
https://github.com/lejenome/html5-video-everywhere
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.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
Source tarballs, binaries for generic GNU/Linux systems and translations
are available at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/31.2.0/
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This is a new iteration of the IceCat project, based on new build
scripts and with an extra focus on privacy.
The new maintainer is Ruben Rodriguez.
IceCat will continue to stick to the ESR (Extended Support Release)
cycle (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/) because
it provides security updates over a stable base. That will also allow to
port privacy features from TorBrowser, which is now following v31ESR.
== Changes since v24 ==
about crashes or security related events).
before browsing them.
Preinstalled add-ons:
- A blacklist of trackers that is used in any browsing mode.
Self-served, privacy-friendly advertising is preserved.
- A filter for all third-party requests while in private browsing.
- A filter for javascript data retrieval while in private browsing.
- Autoupdate for filter lists is optional.
documentation and the possibility to disable them quickly if needed.
Fingerprinting:
- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0
- Plugins like java or flash: these are disabled by default in
IceCat, requiring the user to enable them in a per-site basis. Also
Gnash doesn't work for fingerprinting.
- JS probing: the custom homepage allows to disable custom fonts.
To Do:
- http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:IceCat/
- http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:IceCat/icecat-help
- http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:IceCat/Tour
- http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:IceCat/keyboard-shortcuts
It is available for download here:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/7.0.1/icecat-7.0.1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/7.0.1/icecat-7.0.1.tar.xz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/7.0.1/privacy_ext.xpi
and the GPG detached signatures using the key C03363F4:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/7.0.1/icecat-7.0.1.tar.bz2.sig
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/7.0.1/icecat-7.0.1.tar.xz.sig
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/7.0.1/privacy_ext.xpi.sig
To reduce load on the main server, you can use this redirector service
which automatically redirects you to a mirror:
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnuzilla/7.0.1/icecat-7.0.1.tar.bz2
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnuzilla/7.0.1/icecat-7.0.1.tar.xz
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnuzilla/7.0.1/privacy_ext.xpi
It is available for download here:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/6.0.2/icecat-6.0.2.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/6.0.2/icecat-6.0.2.tar.xz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/6.0.2/privacy_ext.xpi
and the GPG detached signatures using the key C03363F4:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/6.0.2/icecat-6.0.2.tar.bz2.sig
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/6.0.2/icecat-6.0.2.tar.xz.sig
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/6.0.2/privacy_ext.xpi.sig
To reduce load on the main server, you can use this redirector service
which automatically redirects you to a mirror:
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnuzilla/6.0.2/icecat-6.0.2.tar.bz2
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnuzilla/6.0.2/icecat-6.0.2.tar.xz
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnuzilla/6.0.2/privacy_ext.xpi
It is available for download here:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/6.0.1/icecat-6.0.1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/6.0.1/icecat-6.0.1.tar.xz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/6.0.1/privacy_ext.xpi
and the GPG detached signatures using the key C03363F4:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/6.0.1/icecat-6.0.1.tar.bz2.sig
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/6.0.1/icecat-6.0.1.tar.xz.sig
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/6.0.1/privacy_ext.xpi.sig
To reduce load on the main server, you can use this redirector service which automatically redirects you to a mirror:
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnuzilla/6.0.1/icecat-6.0.1.tar.bz2
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnuzilla/6.0.1/icecat-6.0.1.tar.xz
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnuzilla/6.0.1/privacy_ext.xpi
It is available for download here:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/6.0/icecat-6.0.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/6.0/icecat-6.0.tar.xz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/6.0/privacy_ext.xpi
and the GPG detached signatures using the key C03363F4:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/6.0/icecat-6.0.tar.bz2.sig
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/6.0/icecat-6.0.tar.xz.sig
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/6.0/privacy_ext.xpi.sig
To reduce load on the main server, you can use this redirector service
which automatically redirects you to a mirror:
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnuzilla/6.0/icecat-6.0.tar.bz2
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnuzilla/6.0/icecat-6.0.tar.xz
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnuzilla/6.0/privacy_ext.xpi