I read that firefox would integrate advertising in 2019. If so, can it be replaced by IceCat in Mageia 7? And provide a backport for Mageia 6?
Note that we do already have IceApe (SeaMonkey) Does GNUzilla/IceCat have advantages over IceApe? Anyway, assigning this package request to all packagers collectively. On a voluntary basis, one of them might, if there are no license or other legal issues, want to integrate it to the distribution and maintain it for bug and security fixes. You might also want to join the packager team to maintain this piece of software: see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager I'm adjusting the summary, because replacing Firefox should be discussed on dev ml. CC'ing the dev team, security team leaders and some more packagers who can tell whether such discussion should be started.
URL: (none) => https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/CC: (none) => cjw, luigiwalser, mageia, mageia, marja11, ngompa13, thierry.vignaudSummary: Replace Firefox with IceCat in case of advertising. => icecat, IceCat, GNU version of FirefoxAssignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
Icecat is just about branding, it has nothing to do with advertising.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => INVALID
(In reply to David Walser from comment #2) > Icecat is just about branding, it has nothing to do with advertising. https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/04/30/a-privacy-conscious-approach-to-sponsored-content/ I can't see that ever being allowed into IceCat. Having said that, it's easy to disable in Firefox, so not a big problem IMO. Mind you, I use SeaMonkey, so am not affected anyway...