Whatever the case, IceCat is my default browser on my Debian machines because I tend to use a custom Openbox/Thunar environment most of the time. So I don't know if the current lack of the file: type is a temporary abnormality or the sign of things to come on all fronts. The weird thing is that I seem to recall that the file: application type was present in older versions of Firefox-e.g. However, IceCat has a file: application type with which you can set the desired file manager just as you might with any other type. Whatever I've tried, they all insist on opening folders in Nautilus. In any of the other three (or four if you count hand-installing the official Mozilla binaries rather than the Ubuntu and Debian packages), no matter what I've tried, I have not been able to tell the browser in the downloads dialog to "open containing folder" using the file manager of my choice. However, more interesting than the above for me is something I've found to be case with the latest version of IceCat that is not the case with the other three.
#Icecat iceweasel software
Seems like a winner: promoting libre software without limiting the use of proprietary software.
#Icecat iceweasel install
Don't worry-you can still install any add-on that you can in normal Firefox by visiting Mozilla's add-on site. It goes one step further than Iceweasel in its pursuit of libreness in that it redirects its add-ons explorer to a GNU-maintained list of add-ons that are fully-libre. IceCat is very similar to Iceweasel in that its main purpose for being is to remove the non-libre Mozilla bits from Firefox. Perhaps a lesser-known variant (as of this writing) is GNU IceCat.
Two better known variations are Iceweasel-a Debian project that replaces the not-really-covered-by-a-free-license Mozilla branding stuff in Firefox with really-covered-by-a-free-license branding, and Swiftfox-which offers processor-specific optimized compiles of the Mozilla code. But I can't seriously believe you consider the technical improvements made by Debian an ethical problem.There's no shortage of essentially identical Mozilla-derived browsers in Linuxspace now. If you found that it still recommends non-free add-ons in some way that I haven't noticed, then say so. If you think the branding is wrong, then say so. Since you specifically want me to remove the existing Iceweasel package (rather than just provide IceCat as an option), please give me a crystal clear answer on what is wrong with it. That's far from "avoid duplicating efforts", it's more like the opposite. There are several man-months of QA work in that Iceweasel package, and so far the only solution that seems acceptable to you is to throw them away.
#Icecat iceweasel free
> Wouldn't be better for the free software community to don't duplicate our efforts? I asked if the technical changes in IceCat could be enumerated. You said branding was important because it creates confusion, but now you say it is pointless. It's not about the freedom issue, which has been dealt with. I have serious trouble understanding you.
#Icecat iceweasel Patch
> I don't see the point to provide a patch to make IceWeasel look and smell like IceCat when IceCat can be used as it is. If you provide a patch to rebrand it (as IceCat, as upstream branding, anything, I really don't care), I will apply it. People will think that Iceweasel is free when in reality it is not but only the gNewSense version is, or are you going to rebrand it in another way?Īs I said, I see this as a non-issue. > It is not an useless debate, because it will create a lot of confusion. See the following changelogs and their associated bug entries (hyperlinked via bug numbers): Can you please list these technical improvements? (OT: why they aren't included upstream?). > I don't, especially because I don't know them. As for #1 I have no problem with rebranding to something else, be it IceCat, upstream branding or anything. #2 and #3 are already done in metad by importing the changes from IceCat. > 4) Include CAcert in the root certificates. > 2) Use free addons (so replace any link in the UI to point to the gnuzilla list). I extracted the relevant changes from IceCat and applied them: Why you are going to solve again in IceWeasel the same problems IceCat is trying to solve?
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