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GNU IceCat also provides warnings for URL redirection. IceCat includes additional security features, such as the option to block third party zero-length image files resulting in third-party cookies, also known as web bugs (This feature is available in Firefox 1.0, 1.5, and 3.0, but the UI option was absent on 2.0). Additional security and privacy features

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Unofficial builds are available for Windows (Vista or newer) and Android (2.3 or newer).

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Any Mac user with these versions of macOS can install IceCat through Fink.įor the Mac, it is available for both IA-32 and PowerPC architectures. IceCat is also available for macOS 10.4 and higher. Some distributions offer binary and source packages through their repositories, such as Trisquel, Parabola GNU/Linux-libre and Fedora. Both binaries and source are available, though the current build is available only for Linux. GNU IceCat is freely downloadable for the IA-32, x86 64, and PowerPC architectures. See also: Firefox version history Version (non-patch only)ĭifferences from Firefox: to neutralize the functions of spyware sites, made into a separate extension.

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IceCat was ported to the Firefox 3 codebase during Google Summer of Code of 2008. The name change took place as planned and IceCat is the current name. Subsequently, on 23 September 2007, one of the developers of the GNU IceWeasel package announced that the name would be changed to GNU IceCat from IceWeasel in the next release, so as to avoid confusion with Debian's separately maintained, unrelated rebranding of Firefox. In 2006, Mozilla withdrew their permission for Debian to use the Firefox name due to significant changes to the browser that Mozilla deemed outside the boundaries of its policy, changes which Debian felt were important enough to keep, and Debian revived the Iceweasel name in its place.

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However, because the artwork in Firefox had a proprietary copyright license at the time, which was not compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines, the substituted logo had to remain. At night, the ice weasels come.' ĭebian was originally given permission to use the trademarks, and adopted the Firefox name. The term 'ice weasel' appeared earlier in a line which cartoonist Matt Groening fictionally attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche: 'Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. In August 2005, the GNUzilla project adopted the GNU IceWeasel name for a rebranded distribution of Firefox that made no references to nonfree plugins. By January 1, 2005, rebranding was being referred to as the 'Iceweasel route'. Iceweasel was subsequently used as the example name for a rebranded Firefox in the Mozilla Trademark Policy, and became the most commonly used name for a hypothetical rebranded version of Firefox. It was intended as a parody of 'Firefox'. The first known use of the name in this context is by Nathanael Nerode, in reply to Eric Dorland's suggestion of 'Icerabbit'. During this debate, the name 'Iceweasel' was coined to refer to rebranded versions of Firefox. This policy led to a long debate within the Debian Project in 20. Unless distributions use the binary files supplied by Mozilla, fall within the stated guidelines, or else have special permission, they must compile the Firefox source with a compile-time option enabled that creates binaries without the official branding of Firefox and related artwork, using either the built-in free artwork, or artwork provided at compile time. The Mozilla Corporation holds the trademark to the Firefox name and denies the use of the name 'Firefox' to unofficial builds that fall outside certain guidelines.

In addition, it includes several security and privacy features not found in the mainline Firefox browser. It also maintains a large list of free software plugins. The GNU Project attempts to keep IceCat in synchronization with upstream development of Firefox (long-term support versions) while removing all trademarked artwork and non-free add-ons. Mozilla produces free and open-source software, but the binaries include trademarked artwork. As an internet suite, GNUzilla also includes a mail and newsgroup program, and an HTML composer. IceCat is released as a part of GNUzilla, GNU's rebranding of a code base that used to be the Mozilla Application Suite. It is compatible with Linux, Windows, Android and macOS. GNU IceCat, formerly known as GNU IceWeasel, is a completely free version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser distributed by the GNU Project. GPL-3.0-or-later (Scripts to convert Firefox into IceCat)

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