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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-118e6f7b5d
2016-07-02 13:28:24.862105
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Name : icecat
Product : Fedora 24
Version : 38.8.0
Release : 12.fc24
URL :
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
Summary : GNU version of Firefox browser
Description :
GNUZilla Icecat is a fully-free fork of Mozilla Firefox ESR.
Four extensions are included to this version of IceCat:
* LibreJS
GNU LibreJS aims to address the JavaScript problem described in Richard
Stallman's article The JavaScript Trap.
* SpyBlock
Blocks privacy trackers while in normal browsing mode, and all third party
requests when in private browsing mode. Based on Adblock Plus.
* AboutIceCat
Adds a custom "about:icecat" homepage with links to information about the
free software and privacy features in IceCat, and check-boxes to enable
and disable the ones more prone to break websites.
* HTML5-video-everywhere
Uses the native video player to play embedded videos from different sources
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Update Information:
* Fixes #1332926 * Rebuild with -gnu2 source archive * Disable install stripping
* Update to 38.8.0 ---- - Workaround for #1332926 - Rebuild with -gnu2 source
archive ---- - Disable install stripping ---- - Update to 38.8.0
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1347420 - The icecat-debuginfo package appears to lack debugging symbols
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1347420
[ 2 ] Bug #1332926 - Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332926
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update icecat' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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