Re: webauthn support?

[Jack Hill]

Thanks Mark and Chris for you replies,

On Mon, 28 Oct 2019, Mark H Weaver wrote:

> I'm not aware of any freedom issues related to webauthn, nor any
> specific intent by the IceCat developers to disable it.

Thanks for confirming, I didn't know enough to be sure.

> It might be a bug, or possibly a side effect of IceCat's changes to the 
> default settings compared with upstream Firefox.  Here are those 
> changes:
>
>  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git/tree/data/settings.js?h=68
>
> As a first step, I would suggest fiddling with those settings that
> IceCat changed, starting with the ones that seem most likely to be
> related.

I didn't see anything obvious in those settings.

> You might also try bringing up the "Web Console" immediately after the
> failure, either by typing Ctrl-Shift-K or via the "Web Developer"
> submenu of the "Tools" menu.  (Press and release 'Alt' by itself to show
> the menu bar).  Any errors shown here may give you hints about which
> settings above to fiddle with.

I haven't had a chance to investigate more yet, and I wouldn't have known 
where to start, but now I do, so thanks!

On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Chris Marusich wrote:

> I noticed a similar problem a few months ago.  It's still an issue.  I
> looked into it at the time, but I never found a smoking gun.  I may very
> well have missed something.  My hope is that by upgrading IceCat to a
> later ESR release, the issue will go away.

I'm glad it's not just me :) I, too, had hoped that the new ESR would have 
solved the problem.

> If you have a simple set of steps to reproduce the behavior, that would
> be helpful.  I never found the time to create a simple reproduction case
> for the issue I observed, which is why I never reported it.

Unfortunately, I don't have a minimal reproducer now, but did want to 
confirm that it was supposed to work before investigating.

Best,
Jack