From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Katherine Cox-Buday Subject: Re: Packaging a free Firefox Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 06:36:41 -0500 Message-ID: <87zi0yh5ti.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87y3h1g42q.fsf@lassieur.org> <87tvrlhi58.fsf@hyperbola.info> <878t8xo9t9.fsf@gnu.org> <20180506125312.aadd4fixeungiwv6@thebird.nl> <87fu2rip0r.fsf@gmail.com> <87o9hf3wdj.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42535) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJHDD-0006XF-Ut for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 07:36:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJHDA-0007FH-MW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 07:36:47 -0400 Received: from mail-it0-x22a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::22a]:50410) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJHDA-0007Ez-DJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 07:36:44 -0400 Received: by mail-it0-x22a.google.com with SMTP id p3-v6so8378795itc.0 for ; Thu, 17 May 2018 04:36:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87o9hf3wdj.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Wed, 16 May 2018 21:26:48 -0400") 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: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Mark H Weaver writes: > Can you tell me specifically what is wrong with GNU IceCat that makes it > unsuitable for you? It has been my primary browser for several years. I don't think aiming to change a user's motivations is a winning game, but I can enumerate why I personally wanted to use Firefox. Maybe it will help make Icecat better. - Icecat doesn't have any of the new, more performant, pieces Mozilla have been integrating into Firefox (quantum, sevro). - Icecat doesn't have the account synchronization meaning I didn't have access to bookmarks, history, synced tabs, etc. - Icecat very _strangely_ came preinstalled with extensions I didn't want (I think I remember an extension for a fast food chain?) - Icecat cut me off from the normal Firefox extension store. I can't remember if I was able to loan extensions I view as crucial for safely browsing the web. - The number of maintainers and the way in which it was (is?) being maintained did not inspire confidence. The people maintaining this are heros, but I'd rather rely on the boring engineering practices of upstream Firefox than heroic efforts. -- Katherine