Re: Packaging a free Firefox

[Pjotr Prins]

On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 11:53:04AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 11:06:32PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote:
> > Clément Lassieur <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > I find Icecat very buggy, even if I compare it to a home-made Firefox
> > > package that inherits Icecat (and thus is very close to Icecat).  For
> > > example I can't even pay with my credit card with icecat-52-guix,
> > > whereas I can with firefox-home-52-guix.  (It looks like a javascript
> > > issue.)  Also, lots of videos don't work, and it's difficult to know
> > > whether it's because of technical issues or because of DRM.

Using Noscript extension I find Icecat to be much more stable. Not
sure what causes the crashes though, but now the experience is much
like a somewhat older FF.

It is probably worth pursuing Icecat and get those glitches fixed.

Pj.