Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] IceCat for Windows

[dominic]

Chris,

One thing you could try is disabling JavaScript entirely. When you go to 
the home page of icecat (pressing alt+home on my computer), you will see 
a checkbox "Disable JavaScript".

I do this on my machine (which is not Windows) and BBC News displays 
well. Some things (e.g. videos) will not be functional as they require 
non-free JavaScript to run.

Dom

> On 31/10/17 11:45, Chris Rogers wrote:
> > Hi Felix,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply. I've successfully downloaded and installed
> > IceCat from that URL you kindly sent me. I realise that the Windows
> > versions will lag behind the Linux versions a little.
> >
> > I'm a little concerned that I'm not going to be able to use IceCat
> > very much as it doesn't seem to work very well. The first website I
> > tried was the BBC News website - a trusted source that I use all the
> > time. It didn't display at all in the way I expected, showing giant
> > graphic icons instead of the normal size, failing to arrange the
> > sections of the screen in their normal places and not presenting the
> > page very well at all.
> >
> > I appreciate that this may be because the BBC is coding it in a way
> > that demands non-free components to run but sadly if I can't use my
> > preferred websites with this browser, I'll be going back to one of the
> > others I use.
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Chris
> > address@hidden