From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Marusich Subject: Re: Packaging a free Firefox Date: Wed, 02 May 2018 23:06:32 -0700 Message-ID: <877eolw9w7.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87y3h1g42q.fsf@lassieur.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37882) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fE7O6-0003qD-BO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2018 02:06:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fE7O4-0004Jo-VZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2018 02:06:42 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-x234.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c00::234]:33577) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fE7O4-0004JE-Ob for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2018 02:06:40 -0400 Received: by mail-pf0-x234.google.com with SMTP id f20so5038629pfn.0 for ; Wed, 02 May 2018 23:06:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87y3h1g42q.fsf@lassieur.org> (=?utf-8?Q?=22Cl=C3=A9ment?= Lassieur"'s message of "Wed, 02 May 2018 23:06:37 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Lassieur Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cl=C3=A9ment Lassieur writes: > I find Icecat very buggy, even if I compare it to a home-made Firefox > package that inherits Icecat (and thus is very close to Icecat). For > example I can't even pay with my credit card with icecat-52-guix, > whereas I can with firefox-home-52-guix. (It looks like a javascript > issue.) Also, lots of videos don't work, and it's difficult to know > whether it's because of technical issues or because of DRM. This has not been my experience with IceCat. With two exceptions, IceCat has performed just as well as Firefox for me for everything I have done, including credit card payments. I sometimes watch YouTube videos using IceCat, but I don't view many other videos, so I can't really comment on how well IceCat handles videos. If it requires DRM, of course, it's not going to work in IceCat, which is a good thing. When I use IceCat over TOR, it doesn't always work. When I use IceCat with extensions (plugins? add-ons? I'm not sure what the right terminology is here) like NoScript enabled, it doesn't always work. But when I don't use TOR and I disable those add-ons, everything works just as well as stock Firefox. If you're still having trouble after disabling those things, can you describe the specifics of what you're having trouble with? The exceptions I have experienced with IceCat: 1) A website failed for me because IceCat enables Referer spoofing by default (network.http.referer.spoofSource in about:config). I had to disable that feature to use that website. 2) It used to be that IceCat would crash frequently for me. However, once I changed my gfx.canvas.azure.backends and gfx.content.azure.backends from "cairo" to "skia", this problem stopped for me. I don't know if this is still an issue , since I haven't ever switched it back to "cairo". See here for details: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2016-11/msg00008.html =2D-=20 Chris --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEy/WXVcvn5+/vGD+x3UCaFdgiRp0FAlrqpugACgkQ3UCaFdgi Rp2Ssg/+KfrkFPZ97xNAcgocmw6FiPgDC0qrGr89hIr4/uKqEp3HCvPrwucNwrc1 CtAhyjxVPnVD7sx6hO/LpHC9oHeMNkNjQdQo0tm9h6owQ9oOINTr+OqmrHVbnMCr aq9mQZMsEg1GVAynYI6OujzPbRphPwWm8YtrgMOs0xL6fnZ9WBnKJvpPntQpyRMs FOPCrUF5EYf9O36PvCefutS/E4/w6KFkx+kpJVYlG2LfL6woag5lR6Dv8vCfC1Wv E0P7tcWt1PJjGLv+HCQeR5mrx1yzVnhKxsO19UBrG0I4dCkhkMjjStmwK/QnrsQm yoe1wrIEtJ9JSpBGCk9KEkkIxOW7nnxqirZgXjcP/spsZDqfTTPJxwN8SjMdxhkl Oe3DfljnLNCZeiGcmO+3Ijn7rid4l+BaV0IPtKpkIEL4Zua5HAEYjZuQLQG5beGv kEQG0mFWZAGEzmw7gUXbGBkD0w0PZwVq9DrfX+U9pcqRTrGMMsbDC1ZrcUPGgiNg yZ1dfTU9vX5NWk470kO4dJh0X7o99/tbor6I3CqJ+8Q7rkFtiktAk9wck+KZcm9X REQMEWwkx/WySwMCl80lC6Mf88SGEUMbQliCZMwm+J6GJHBSs1fEwc2nSndB4+Yo 8ZeSwy6Az+YudaCBc6+oUz/bU6eYsywN2Lp0GOqodQ8M9FioKws= =NsTD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--