BSD Ports

wip/icecat 3.6.8 NetBSD

GNU version of www/firefox

System
NetBSD
Repository
pkgsrc-wip
Maintainer
[email protected]
Categories
wip, www

Description

Gnuzilla is the GNU version of the Mozilla suite, and GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser. Its main advantage is an ethical one: it is entirely free software. While the source code from the Mozilla project is free software, the binaries that they release include additional non-free software. Also, they distribute and recommend non-free software as plug-ins.

In addition, GNU IceCat includes some privacy protection features:

  1. Some sites refer to zero-size images on other hosts to keep track of cookies. When IceCat detects this mechanism it blocks cookies from the site hosting the zero-length image file. (It is possible to re-enable such a site by removing it from the blocked hosts list.)
  2. Other sites rewrite the host name in links redirecting the user to another site, mainly to "spy" on clicks. When this behavior is detected, IceCat shows a message alerting the user.

Install

From pkgsrc-wip (no binary package):

cd /usr/pkgsrc/wip/icecat && make install clean

Dependencies

Build dependencies 1
Run dependencies 7

No port depends on this one.