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IceCat 31.5.0 release

Item posted by Ruben Rodriguez <rubenquidam> on Mon 09 Mar 2015 09:13:08 PM 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.
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/
GPG key ID:D7E04784 GNU IceCat releases
Fingerprint: A573 69A8 BABC 2542 B5A0  368C 3C76 EED7 D7E0 4784

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:

  • Windows Vista or newer
  • MacOS 10.4 or newer
  • Android 2.3 or newer
  • GNU/Linux with glibc 2.15 or newer (Debian Testing, Ubuntu Precise)

   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!

Changes since v31.4.0


  • Updated to v31.5.0ESR
  • Added build support for Windows, MacOS and Android
  • Searchplugin instalation for mobile
  • Make sure app.update and datareporting are disabled
  • Updated html5-video-everywhere to 0.2.30
  • Use prename instead of rename
  • Adapt Spyblock for mobile
  • Added patches to fix build bugs for Windows, MacOS and Android
  • Enable LibreJs on mobile
  • Updated aboutIcecat graphics
  • Added android-images dir
  • Fixed about:rights page content
  • Added mobile branding files
  • Added more fields to AddonsScraper.py
  • Fake uname/arch no longer needed

 

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