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:
- 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.)
- 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.