IceCat

[lucker999]

Project description
GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser. It aim to be based on the the current official release of Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) with removal of trademarked artwork and proprietary components. I personally use it (on windows over chocolatey) for many years, it's regularly updated, support plugins.

IceCat is generated from Firefox with the scripts available in the Git repository of GNUzilla
You can find langpacks for IceCat on ftp.gnu.org, in the langpacks directory for a given release
available from ftp.gnu.org, or any GNU mirror

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
• source URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git
• license: GNU https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git/tree/COPYING
• platforms: linux (32 and 64 bit)

[wegank]

See #160186 (comment).

[vcunat]

That was version 60. Fedora and AUR have source-built 102 (i.e. the current FF LTS), so apparently it is possible.

[wyndon]

Why do we need Icecat when we already have Librewolf ?

[zax71]

I think that IceCat (and other Firefox forks) still have merit over Librewolf. I have personally used Librewolf briefly, and although I do care about privacy, I do not want functionality to be compromised for it. Hence, there is merit in other Firefox forks in my eyes.

Also, it seems that development work on IceCat has re-started (see the Git repo) and as of making this post it was last updated 4 days ago.

So, I would love to see IceCat re-considered, especially since the latest of Mozilla's shortcomings.

[SpidFightFR]

Indeed i've noticed upstream has become active again.

Perhaps it is linked to Mozilla's recent questionable decisions.

regardless, it would indeed be a great addition to nixpkgs.

[nixpkgs-ci]

Thank you for your interest in packaging new software in Nixpkgs. Unfortunately, to mitigate the unsustainable growth of unmaintained packages, Nixpkgs is no longer accepting package requests via Issues.

As a volunteer community, we are always open to new contributors. If you wish to see this package in Nixpkgs, we encourage you to contribute it yourself, via a Pull Request. Anyone can become a package maintainer! You can find language-specific packaging information in the Nixpkgs Manual. Should you need any help, please reach out to the community on Matrix or Discourse.