![]() ![]() GNU IceCat also provides warnings for URL redirection. IceCat includes additional security features, such as the option to block third party zero-length image files resulting in third party cookie, also known as web bugs (This feature is available in Firefox 1.0, 1.5, and 3.0, but the UI option was absent on 2.0). For the Mac, it is available for both IA-32 & PowerPC architectures. Any Mac user with these versions of Mac OS X can install IceCat through Fink. IceCat is also available for Mac OS X 10.4 & 10.5. Both binaries and source are available, though the current build is available only for Linux. GNU IceCat is available as a free download for the IA-32 and PowerPC architectures. Releases usually keep up to date with the Mozilla Firefox source code. There was no release based on Firefox 1.5.0.5 or 1.5.0.6. The first Gnuzilla IceWeasel release was based on the 1.5.0.4 version of Firefox. In August 2005, the Gnuzilla project adopted the GNU IceWeasel name for a rebranded distribution of Firefox that made no references to nonfree plugins. The name change took place as planned and IceCat is the current name. This was to avoid confusion with Debian's separately maintained, unrelated rebranding of Firefox. On 23 September 2007, one of the developers announced that the name would be changed to GNU IceCat from Iceweasel in the next release. In 2006, Mozilla withdrew their permission for Debian to use the Firefox name due to significant changes to the browser that Mozilla deemed outside the boundaries of its policy, changes which Debian felt were important enough to keep, and Iceweasel was revived in its place. However, because the artwork in Firefox has a proprietary copyright license which is not compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines, the substituted logo had to remain. At night, the ice weasels come." ĭebian was originally given permission to use the trademarks, and adopted the Firefox name. The term "ice weasel" appeared earlier in a line which Matt Groening fictionally attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche: " Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. By January 1, 2005, rebranding was being referred to as the "GNU Iceweasel route". It was intended as a parody of "Firefox." Iceweasel was subsequently used as the example name for a rebranded Firefox in the Mozilla Trademark Policy, and became the most commonly used name for a hypothetical rebranded version of Firefox. The first known use of the name in this context is by Nathanael Nerode, in reply to Eric Dorland's suggestion of "Icerabbit". During this debate, the name "GNU Iceweasel" was coined to refer to rebranded versions of Firefox. This policy led to a long debate within the Debian Project in 20. Unless distributions use the binary files supplied by Mozilla, fall within the stated guidelines, or else have special permission, they must compile the Firefox source with a compile-time option enabled that creates binaries without the official branding of Firefox and related artwork, using either the built-in free artwork, or artwork provided at compile time. ![]() It looks like Iceweasel does almost the same thing, although it may skip more versions and be further behind at points in keeping with general debian practices.The Mozilla Corporation owns trademark to the Firefox name and denies the use of the name "Firefox" to unofficial builds that fall outside certain guidelines. The Icecat wikipedia page states that "The GNU Project keeps IceCat in synchronization with upstream development of Firefox", so I would presume their version numbers match up. Iceweasel is a repackaging (and modification) by debian. So, currently: Icecat is a repackaging (and modification) of firefox by GNU. ![]() Somewhere I while back I saw a GNU comment regarding "Why Icecat?" to which the answer was, "Because it's not Firefox", but clearly "Iceweasel" was a better inversion, and it sounds to me like this was used first to refer to any pseudo-firefox, which explains the eventual GNU/Debian confusion. ![]() What the "tweak" amounts to may just be the logo since it involved a license Debian considers "non-free", they wanted a firefox they could distribute without it, which required a rename.Ī bit odd, but I presume that Debian, GNU, and Mozilla have a mostly friendly relationship. GNU Icecat was GNU Iceweasel, but the reason they changed the name was because Debian also used "Iceweasel" to rebrand their slightly tweaked version of firefox. ![]()
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