Icecat Updated to v60.5.0ESR

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Icecat Updated to v60.5.0ESR

Thomas Moore

New modifications to the git
git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnuzilla.git

May 13, 2019 - 14:46

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Alexander Gomez

Following what posted. I've successfully compiled Icecat 60.5.0ESR for GNU/linux debian based distros.
Warning tho this version isn't finished yet, it hasn't been released on the gnu ftp.
I'm working on Trisquel so I didn't had much dependencies to begin with.
You need at least 20GB of disk space to compile this, at the end the folder will weight 9.6GB.
RTFRM!: The readme in the new git version is not correct follow the old one

BUILD FROM TARBALL
>cd objdir/browser/locales

First install the essential:
Then install the dependencies for your firefox fork, on Trisquel we don't have firefox but abrowser:
On my distro I had to install another few dependencies that were not satisfied, I had to install bzr, mercurial, devscripts and ccache:
Normally it should just compile fine with these if you have more dependencies then you need to find them.

Now do:
Go into the folder:
You now need to let the makefile "makeicecat" to be executable:
Now execute the makefile:

As stated in the README, the file that it will generate will be put in the "output" folder.
Now you need to fetch the build script to build Icecat for the platform that you want:
In this example we'll compile it for GNU/linux based distros, so you need first to make it executable:
Then you need to copy it to the output folder where the Icecat source were made:
Then go in your icecat-60.6.3 folder.
Once you're in it you need execute the "build-gnulinux.sh" script.
You'll have to wait for a few hours depending on the hardware that you have.
After that you have two options, the first being to install it directly, the second is to create a tarball.
I haven't done a direct installation with "make install" but only the tarball.

As mentioned in the README, for the tarball go to the folder "installer located in "~/gnuzilla/output/icecat-60.6.3/obj-gnulinux/browser/"
Once in it you just have to do "make"
Again like the README says, the tarball will be located in "~/gnuzilla/output/icecat-60.6.3/obj-gnulinux/dist".
So go in it:
And you'll find a tarball named "icecat-60.6.3.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2".
Of course it could have another name if you fidled with the l10n options (options to compile with another language).
If you want to change language you aren't force to recompile everything the XPI file for that are located in "~/gnuzilla/output/icecat-60.6.3/obj-gnulinux/dist/linux-x86_64/xpi".

This should work on old versions of icecat too. I'm going to try and compile for windows since I still have fam on it. Good luck anons.

May 13, 2019 - 14:57

Sebastian Foster

Based.

May 13, 2019 - 15:33

Luis Jenkins

Hope it'll compile on Devuan, because previous releases didn't. That's the only reason I'm using furryfox now...

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May 13, 2019 - 15:36

Carson Gutierrez

how long does it take to compile this? it wasnt that bad before rust but i have not tried compiling it after that was added

May 13, 2019 - 16:27

Zachary Bailey

Please try and post what happened, I hope it compiles well. Normally it should, Trisquel is Debian/ubuntu based with a lot more restrictions than Devuan so if it compile on Trisquel it compiles on pretty much anything.

May 13, 2019 - 16:32

Kayden Edwards

Like said in the post a few hours, it varies depending on your hardware.
I had worse, the first time that I compiled gentoo took much longer than that.

May 13, 2019 - 16:45

Juan Barnes

Is this the version that adds the new rust based layout engine and is meant to be super fast?

May 13, 2019 - 19:59

Benjamin White

m8 Firefox implemented that functions one or two years ago, and it's not because of rust that it's fast it's because their re-written the whole CSS rendering engine from scratch, they could have done it in C or any other language it would have been fast too, it was just because the CSS code was bad.
Rust is a meme language, don't trust the hype.
If you want to see if ff is fast just compare icecat 38 and the latest one.

May 13, 2019 - 20:29

Xavier Butler

So after attempting to compile for windows I ran into an obstacle.
In the "buildscripts" folder I need to first build the tools chain to be able to cross compile for windows from gnu/linux and to put it simple the toolchain-windows.sh doesn't work and gives errors. I suppose it's because it is outdated.
Last support version of Icecat for windows was v38 so there's loads to catch up.
I'm going to look into the unofficial compiled version on github maybe there's an working version there.
github.com/muslayev/icecat-win64/releases

May 13, 2019 - 23:33

Jeremiah Nguyen

In the buildscripts folder the "mozconfig-windows" seems outdated.
It states that the sandbox can't be built with mingw-w64 but in the URL the bug is stated as fixed.
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1042426
The option "ac_add_options --disable-sandbox " doesn't exist anymore either.

May 13, 2019 - 23:46

Mason Robinson

why use Icecat when you can use Tor Browser?
and why Icecat doesn't use Tor?

May 13, 2019 - 23:55

Nathan Rogers

Because some people don't use the Tor network.

It use similar options like fingerprinting protection.

May 14, 2019 - 00:25

Aaron Brown

you can use tor proxies with icecat. but you cant browse on tor networks.

May 14, 2019 - 02:05

Hudson Young

Tor browser is a fork of Firefox and is dedicated to make it easy to join the Tor network. It is a matter of convenience. You can configure any browser (such as Icecat) to make use of Tor.

May 14, 2019 - 02:36

Wyatt Fisher

This is true but many websites using the tor node list block your browser/client if you don't use the tor browser headers for everything. The idea was originally to block wget and crawlers but evolved into banning anything that isn't tor browser from tor. Cloudfare is one such example for websites that don't change their settings correctly. As it blocks you on tor unless you use the tor browser settings for: user agent, platform agent, image referrer agent, accept headers, and javascript OSCPU. It may or may not block you if you don't disable things like canvas ID and javascript. You should all be using text browsers or the single browser that you can unpozz, firefox forks. Actually I really should just release a meme browser for shitz and giggles. I need logos though for all the files located under github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/tree/master/browser/branding/official . I also need some faggot who can compile the crapshoot for faggot osx and windoze as I can't be assed to compile it for such because unix sucks but the alternatives eat shit.

May 14, 2019 - 03:48

John Jones

If you're interested in an open source project, just make your first release for one platform and any other developer who is interested will take their own time to compile it for the other platforms.

May 14, 2019 - 04:15

Connor Edwards

I haven't find anything on the icecat-win64 github.
I posted the error that seems related to GAS on searx engines, the solutions that I read was to get a more recent version of GCC but I've already tried four different versions and it doesn't work.

Here are the errors that I get

In the toolchain-windows.sh file I've changed the wget lines, and other corresponding, to see if it would work with another version of GCC, it works but I still have the same errors.

For shit and giggles I've launched the "build-windows.sh" and of course it didn't work
I'm kinda blocked right now. Will continue research later.
Maybe the simplest way would be to compile icecat under windows?
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Windows_Prerequisites

May 14, 2019 - 04:35

Mason Williams

So mainline has been updated to 60.5, but when does this come to the ftp

ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/

May 14, 2019 - 05:25

Justin Ortiz

See
When they decided that it's stable.

May 14, 2019 - 13:58

Nathan Morales

It seems that the toolchain-windows.sh script hasn't been updated since 2016, the same year that windows compatibility was drooped.
git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git/log/data/buildscripts/toolchain-windows.sh

May 14, 2019 - 14:36

Matthew Adams

Well I've looked into the Icecat mailing list, sadly the links that existed for cross-compiling icecat for windows are 504.
casualgamer.ca/index.php/download/55/
casualgamer.ca/index.php/unofficial-icecat-builds/
Both links are dead.
I've found this link github.com/gdriggs/icecat-win64 which compiled a version of Icecat 45.7 on windows.
It really grinds my gears that you have to use visual studio to compile for windows.

May 15, 2019 - 13:30

Jack Kelly

404

May 15, 2019 - 13:41

Ian Ortiz

May 18, 2019 - 17:17

Henry Rogers

embargo is cancer and needs to die. if the jews can know about it then other should know too so they can do something to it

May 18, 2019 - 20:55

Jacob Sanders

This would be very productive.

May 19, 2019 - 01:27

Ethan Cook

All of this is either outdated or not working on Trisquel.
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Simple_Firefox_build/Linux_and_MacOS_build_preparation
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Linux_Prerequisites
I get
When I launch the Bootstrap script.
I found a similar thread for gentoo but it's seven years old bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=803990

May 21, 2019 - 03:40

Jace Thomas

The absolute difference between compilation guides for Gnu/linux and Windows.

Linux Prerequisites:
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Linux_Prerequisites
youtube.com/watch?v=wpRckI9IfUM
Linux build preparation:
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Simple_Firefox_build/Linux_and_MacOS_build_preparation
These were maybe recently updated but don't work on blobless debian/ubunt based system, compare these to the windows build manual and you see that they are incomplete or less learning friendly, even the Icecat Readme was more precise than this.

This is the sort of easy to learn steps.

Building Firefox On Windows:
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Windows_Prerequisites

>developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions#Random_FAQs_and_Developer_Documentation
developer.mozilla.org/en/Cross-Compiling_Mozilla
developer.mozilla.org/en/Compiling_32-bit_Firefox_on_a_Linux_64-bit_OS

May 21, 2019 - 04:11

Dominic Flores

Any news ? Did it work ?

May 21, 2019 - 04:18

Logan Allen

I found this
github.com/gdriggs/icecat-win64

>This is my first attempt at building a Windows binary of GNU IceCat. Please see gnu.org/software/gnuzilla for more information.

>I began with instructions from Mozilla for setting up a build environment: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Windows_Prerequisites

Seems that cross compile is doomed for now.

May 21, 2019 - 04:58

Jaxon Brown

Link related ? Trisquel 8 uses Gcc 5.4.
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230079

May 21, 2019 - 05:22

Luis Hernandez

so why do you want this on windows so much?

May 21, 2019 - 05:45

Liam Martinez

When you want to migrate your users to another OS they need to have the most similarity looking software available.
Having Icecat or other software on their windows workstations before I migrate them to gnu/linux is always better for them and me, as they won't come crying that they don't recognize the software they are using.
Either you change the softwares they use without the OS or you change the OS without changing the software but you don't do both at the same time. You can of course do both at the same time but it has a higher chance of going badly for your users.

May 21, 2019 - 12:12

Jordan Russell

What is the point of all the meme extensions? Just give it uMatrix you retards.

May 21, 2019 - 12:20

Ayden Peterson

9999 out of 10000 people are too retarded to understand it, and it's not much higher among modern Zig Forums posters. That's why most people here unironically use google chrome.

May 21, 2019 - 12:25

David Cruz

Kys.
Icecat was made for users to avoid proprietary Javascript.
If you don't like libreJS deactivate it and install umatrix.

This.
Tbh libreJS needs to mimic what umatrix does. A grid that automatically block nonfree JS and that can be customized like umatrix would be a neat grail.

May 21, 2019 - 15:09

Josiah Lopez

Thanks user, it works great, removed almost all addons I had before. I was too lazy to check what uMatrix is, but that was a mistake.

May 21, 2019 - 15:48

Grayson Bell

News:
Dependency hell on windows is hell worse than gnu/linux.
Basically this guide developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Windows_Prerequisites is incomplete and the bootstrap.py isn't working for icecat.

I went like this
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Windows_Prerequisites
Then you need to install the MozillaBuild which is a terminal with bash functions
ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/win32/MozillaBuildSetup-Latest.exe
Once that's done go in c:\mozilla-build\ and launch that terminal then do
Launch the bootstrap.py script that will install the remaining dependencies
./mach bootstrap
From that point I thought if the dependencies are satisfied then I can just do what github.com/gdriggs/icecat-win64 and github.com/muslayev/icecat-win64 . I'll just download the icecat source ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/60.3.0/icecat-60.3.0-gnu1.tar.bz2 copy the mozconfig and launch "./configure" then "./mach build"
But no the ./configure gives me an error.
And yes you have to install LLVM no it's even stated in the developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Windows_Prerequisites
>developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Windows_Prerequisites
>groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/MdbLAcvHC0Y/discussion
Ok lets install LLVM, there's no instructions from mozilla on to how to do it.
clang.llvm.org/get_started.html
>python.org/download
which version of python ? idk installed 2.7
>cmake.org/download
Install cmake
>github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v3.14.4/cmake-3.14.4-win64-x64.msi
Git clone llvm
>git clone github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git
Build LLVM and Clang:
Open a new windows terminal (not the mozilla one)
and it doesn't work
You can now go back and also try the bootstrap.py and it won't work either it gives you errors.

>viewboard=!', 'clone', '--noupdate', 'hg.mozilla.org/hgcustom/version-co

May 23, 2019 - 03:19

Cameron James

It unironically might be easier to install gentoo and then make a mingw32 crossdev enviroment to compile icecat then that shit. See wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mingw for the idea or more resources.
e.g
Three commands and done, the binary shows up under /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/usr/bin/ . That is after you install gentoo which is its own ordeal. This is assuming no problems crop up. It sounds alot easier then dealing with microsoft's compiler and other such shit. Clang/gcc optimize better too.

May 23, 2019 - 03:43

Julian Edwards

Ya'll niggas need to find Jesus. And MSYS2.

May 23, 2019 - 03:59

Landon Thompson

I have installed gentoo in the past and I agree I had less much ==BULLSHIT== if not none when installing gentoo than compiling on wintrash.
How do developers work on that piece of shit ?

May 23, 2019 - 04:44

Nicholas Morris

Don't we already have Saint-iGNUcius ?

May 23, 2019 - 04:48

John Bailey

so why is this still not on the gnu ftp?

May 23, 2019 - 10:56

Asher Brown

Mozilla has literally millions of dollars and can't even educate there developers to make propos documentation.

May 23, 2019 - 21:14

Colton Butler

it all goes to very important things like supporting feminism and diversity. to them its more important to hire a tranny nigger than fix the software

May 25, 2019 - 12:30

Justin Cooper

IceCat 60.7.0 released!
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-06/msg00001.html

June 2, 2019 - 23:49

Grayson Parker

slightly off topic but how do i remove the pre-embedded extensions on icecat properly?

i've found that the `extensions/gnu` has all the extensions and deleted the directory but once the build reaches that stage it gives an error.
i managed to modify the thing that `mach install` reads to install the thing and removed the addon check thingy so it installed properly.

what's the proper way to do this?

June 3, 2019 - 01:02

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