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From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Subject: Re: Packaging a free Firefox
Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 16:54:59 +0200
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On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 11:53:04AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 11:06:32PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote:
> > Cl=E9ment Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> writes:
> >=20
> > > I find Icecat very buggy, even if I compare it to a home-made Firef=
ox
> > > package that inherits Icecat (and thus is very close to Icecat).  F=
or
> > > 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 javascri=
pt
> > > issue.)  Also, lots of videos don't work, and it's difficult to kno=
w
> > > whether it's because of technical issues or because of DRM.

Using Noscript extension I find Icecat to be much more stable. Not
sure what causes the crashes though, but now the experience is much
like a somewhat older FF.

It is probably worth pursuing Icecat and get those glitches fixed.

Pj.