Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Icecat future development

[Narcis Garcia]

It can be interesing Icecat to be a torbrowser derivative (or together)
instead of being alone Firefox derivative.

What about ESR-only versions policy?


El 13/08/16 a les 21:47, ng0 ha escrit:
> Hi,
> 
> I had an exchange of ideas with other people after the recent security
> announcement of firefox[2].
> The state of torbrowser was brought up in Guix as a problem and a
> discussion before, in the attempt to figure out how to package
> torbrowser compatible to our system.
> 
> It was pointed out to me that the team which develops torbrowser is
> working together with mozilla to upstream their patchset[0][1].
> With this new development and the importance of networks like tor,
> it would be a logic choice to switch to torbrowser as upstream of
> icecat and follow their development.
> At least that's one alternative I can come up with.
> This will of course not be torbrowser in its original form, as
> adjustments are made. Wether this differs from upstream in the default
> unique fingerprint of the browser has to be monitored, but I am not
> suggesting to build another torbrowser, just to use it as a more recent,
> well maintained firefox codebase for icecat.
> For your information, torbrowser recently switched to follow a different
> version of firefox than in the last years.
> 
> I don't know about the size of your development team, it is assumed that
> it is rather small? In any case, if you need help with tasks, there are
> certainly some people interested in helping to make the transition to a
> new version. Personally I have limited resources, so I can only be of
> limited help.
> 
> I do believe that torbrowser might also benefit from this if tb is
> chosen as upstream and fixes are upstreamed to either firefox or
> torbrowser depending on the nature of the fix.
> 
> I am aware that this message does not cover every detail I have talked
> about on other lists and off-list, but I'd like to get in contact with
> you on this topic.
> 
> 
> Additional question, what's needed to get into the store which icecat
> uses? http://patrol.psyced.org/ is a extension which provides more
> functionality than https-everywhere. torbrowser 6.0.3 does not use
> firefox 48 as a base, but they might be working on a solution for the
> forced extensions+addons signing already which will start with FF 48.
> 
> 
> [0]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1260929
> [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1173199
> [2]: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-08/msg00277.html
> 
> 
> thanks and greetings,
>