On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 5:33 PM, Antonio Trande <address@hidden> wrote:
Hi all.
Will Icecat be upgraded still?
I
was wondering the same thing. As much as I dislike the latest moves by
Mozilla [1] and as much as I like GNU and IceCat, I'm a bit worried by
the lack of maintenance of the project.
IceCat is quite lagging behind Firefox ESR now. HEAD is 52.3.0, whereas Firefox ESR is already at 52.5.2.
Some
JS preferences are outdated, like those referring to pipelining or
loop. And most addons will be dead when ESR transitions to Quantum.
I
think the project would be much better served by a simple rebranding
script that removes proprietary artwork, and a user.js that is
aggressively kept up-to-date.
Keeping IceCat fresh and
useful is increasingly important. For example, it's the main browser
used by GuixSD, a Libre GNU distribution that is gaining popularity.