It was not intentional. I cannot speak for the IceCat project, but I
think it's safe to say that they intend to continue including the Tor
button in IceCat.
I see.
There are several unresolved issues in Guix's preview of IceCat-68,
which has *not* yet been released by the IceCat project, and probably
does not yet meet the privacy standards of the IceCat project. The only
reason I updated to this unfinished version in Guix was because the
alternative (leaving users to use a browser with many published security
flaws) seemed worse.
I understand. It was a good call though.
I'm currently overloaded with other urgent tasks unrelated to IceCat,
but I'm doing what I can to gradually fix the remaining issues in Guix's
preview of IceCat-68.
☺
Regarding the Tor button, I guess that it has something to do with the
following message, which I see printed in the text output when I run
'icecat' manually from a shell:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
1572378945089 addons.xpi-utils WARN addMetadata: Add-on tortm-browser-button@jeremybenthum is invalid: Error: Invalid addon ID: expected addon ID tortm-browser-button@jeremybenthum, found undefined in manifest(resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIDatabase.jsm:2715:15) JS Stack trace:
address@hidden
:2715:15
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Would you like to look into it? I would be grateful for the help.
Sure, I can try.
In the meantime, you could try installing the extension from here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tortm-browser-button/
although I caution that many addons on that site are nonfree software,
so please make sure to always check the licenses.
I always had to download extensions from there.
Is there a unique place to download extensions for IceCat?
Regards,
RG.
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