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kuze
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IceCat package

Post by kuze » 2011/08/17 11:09:41

Hello,

Is there any Icecat package available for CentOS 6?

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IceCat package

Post by pschaff » 2011/08/17 13:25:10

Not that I can find by searching the well-known [url=http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories]Repositories[/url].

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Re: IceCat package

Post by scottro » 2011/08/17 15:02:16

As I understand it, Icecat is simply firefox without plugins, most of which people find sadly necessary -- flash being the best example. (Sadly meaning most people hate flash, but web designers feel it makes the customer think they're getting their money's worth.)

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

Though if one is a cat person rather than panda person (as a firefox is actually the red panda, and not a fox) it does have a nice logo.

If it works like firefox, one can probably just download the tarball and run it tha way.

By the way for interested parties, Leigh Scott has built rpms for Firefox 6 for EPEL.

http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/leigh123linux/firefox6/epel-firefox6.repo

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Re: IceCat package

Post by kuze » 2011/08/17 17:24:38

[quote]
pschaff wrote:
Not that I can find by searching the well-known [url=http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories]Repositories[/url].[/quote]
Thanks for searching and confirming. Even i could not find anywhere.

[quote]
scottro wrote:
As I understand it, Icecat is simply firefox without plugins, most of which people find sadly necessary--flash being the best example. (Sadly meaning most people hate flash, but web designers feel it makes the customer think they're getting their money's worth.)

If it works like firefox, one can probably just download the tarball and run it tha way.
[/quote]

Flash is so annoying. It runs without user permission. I mean the ads n all,.. waste of bandwidth and total distraction.

Anyways, back on topic, IceCat cannot be run without installation. And it takes a lot of effort to do that.
But, it is much more secure than Firefox, and in my experience much faster.

Thanks for replies. If any1 finds the rpm please share the link.

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