Well FSF still not updated the Icecat binary but icecat still maintained by FSF Heros.
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GNU Icecat on github? the same platform that build copilot ?
RMS said about the great harm GitHub has done to the free software community
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For more techy people, I recommend trying sxmo interface with postmarketOS. In that case, you wonât be using systemd or gnome.
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Of course, what one should be aware of is that âIcecatâ comes from automated scripts that basically add brand-removal patches to Firefox ESR.
If you check with the official source code repository, it really isnât maintained. It absolutely hasnât kept up with known bugs (e.g. last CVE fixed that wasnât part of Firefox ESR was in 2021/12/07), etc. gnuzilla.git - GNUzilla and IceCat . The last material change to Icecat was in 2022/11/16 that including code to help âresist fingerprintingâ. Here is their public mailing list: bug-gnuzilla Archives â activity is near 0.
The official repository doesnât show any work on HW acceleration.
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You may be right Privacy2, but⌠you know. On some Level you can make a fork from Source Code. Update future security issue with community ( i know this is really hard), and just do not delver any new options, to some Software. In this case you may have not any fancy DRM, Video or Server changed interaction behavior which will your be banned by a slow feeding of data from Servers by Alphabet, Meta or Google. But its fully compatible with plain HTML and 90% of the old Web, just not with the fancy one.
Its the same for Applications SDKs and accessing APIs of Mainstream Megacorps like Meta, Apple, Amazon, Facebook or Tennet.
Back 2 Browsers, they are dying and become obsolete. So i think we can take have that risk and stay in a future where we have to use some app to access special Mainstream Content like Videos on Alphabets place or Data from Meta⌠and just use a highly fast updated Application. Right now the usual User do not use a Browser any more. Kids do not know what a File is or a hierarchy of files and folders, cause they just let the phone os search (to share that data with the internet), to find and open a file. And of course this Kids do not know what the Internet is, what HTTP was, what was Usenet or BTX and just skip it⌠and will not known about URLS⌠so we have to take care on alternatives in future.
Personally i would suggest to just write scripts for accessing Information indirect by Bots, and have a sandbox liked check to the accessed files before a further processing and a display to your holy computers.
Browsers are dying and be the new FLASH⌠however its a multi level Tool to access and describe Information like Math and Language to Humans or Turing Machines.
Edit: By the Way: If i download a Video File, the Script did not need to have Hardware acceleration, if i have that Video as File and my mplayer or vlc has⌠which in the end will display/render that file for me. I still love RSS ;D
You may be interested to know that GNU IceCat had many recent commits relating to privacy front-ends; they use âPrivacy Redirectâ instead of âLibRedirectâ. Activity otherwise remains nearly non-existent.
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