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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.
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/38.3.0/
GPG key ID:D7E04784 GNU IceCat releases
Fingerprint: A573 69A8 BABC 2542 B5A0 368C 3C76 EED7 D7E0 4784
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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
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