[abandoned] GNU IceCat, Portable Edition Development Test 1

Zach Thibeau

(Homepage) - December 29, 2009 - 12:33am

Application: GNU IceCat
Category: Internet
Description: The GNUzilla Project is the GNU version of Mozilla source code. All proprietary software has been removed.
The current focus is on GNU IceCat, our browser derived from Mozilla Firefox.
GNUzilla keeps the original tri-license used by Mozilla to facilitate the reuse of code.

keep in mind this is the first windows binary of GNU IceCat some bugs are extremly minor like the about box not showing properly, please don't report about the about box

Download not available due to the fact I don't have enough time to compile icecat on windows anymore and the second reason is that my main app (that I support and work on) PChat is taken precedence on my list

Release Notes:

Development Test 1 (2009/29/09):

initial release

( categories:

Beta Testing

)

Why "Portable Edition"?

Bruce Pascoe - December 29, 2009 - 9:10am

Shouldn't this just be GNU IceCat Portable?

The whole reason for the overly-verbose "Portable Edition" qualifier on Firefox was due to Mozilla's trademark policies. Those policies are exactly why IceCat exists in the first place. It therefore strikes me as a bit ironic that you'd use the same nomenclature here...

but it looks cooler this way

Zach Thibeau

(Homepage) - December 29, 2009 - 11:27am

but it looks cooler this way , anyways I'll change it as soon as I get more word from the icecat mailing list.

your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau

I was always wondering about

The MAZZTer

(Homepage) - December 31, 2009 - 6:27am

I was always wondering about that. I guess I can remove "Google Chrome, Portable Edition" from my launcher then lol. Based it off of Firefox's.

Signature automatically removed for being too awesome.

actually the Portable Edition

Zach Thibeau

(Homepage) - December 31, 2009 - 11:00am

actually the Portable Edition was to comply to trademarks so in your case I would keep it if I were you unless John says otherwise.

your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau

When I go to the "About Icecat"....

furioussun - January 8, 2010 - 3:16pm

I get this message when I go try to look at the about IceCat tab

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: chrome://browser/content/aboutDialog.xul
Line Number 38, Column 9: &logoCopyright;
--------^

please read the topic, I did

Zach Thibeau

(Homepage) - January 8, 2010 - 5:59pm

please read the topic, I did say "please don't report about the about box", thanks to another user this has been fixed and will be applied in the next release

your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau

I'm going to stuff you head

gluxon

(Homepage) - December 29, 2009 - 4:06pm

I'm going to stuff your head in a toilet

lol, joking. BTW, is this using your custom source or a modified version of John's launcher?

Siggys waste Bandwidth... that's why I have one.

slightly modified Firefox

Zach Thibeau

(Homepage) - December 29, 2009 - 6:45pm

slightly modified Firefox Portable Launcher, I got to do some more stuff like atm GNU IceCat doesn't touch the registry at all so I'm going to remove the registry functions from the source launcher comment the code of what I changed as well. I'm also on the IceCat Mailing list asking questions etc about icecat how my build for windows could be improved too.

your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau

Oh sweet, no registry? I

gluxon

(Homepage) - December 29, 2009 - 6:59pm

Oh sweet, no registry?

I love linux ports

Siggys waste Bandwidth... that's why I have one.

Ditto

digitxp (Homepage) - December 30, 2009 - 1:54pm

Ditto

Insert original signature here with Greasemonkey Script.

About box fix

TaffinFoxcroft

- December 29, 2009 - 8:19pm

Here's a fix for the about box. Place it in App\IceCat\chrome, and it should work.
Disclaimer: All I did was delete one line from the file that was causing problems. If something breaks, I'm not responsible =P
Download: http://cubegames.net/taneth/uploads/icecat/browser.jar

But there’s no sense crying over every mistake,
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

I'll add it in dev test 2

Zach Thibeau

(Homepage) - December 29, 2009 - 9:57pm

I'll add it in dev test 2

your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau

I went to your homepage today

agdurrette

(Homepage) - January 5, 2010 - 4:32pm

I went to your homepage today and saw -=[ Hacked by Avengers Team ]=- in the tittle.

"It's just an online installer. It's not going to mug you.", JTH
"The shell is the key to unlock Linux's greatest advantages."

Zach might not actually have

computerfreaker

(Homepage) - January 5, 2010 - 5:02pm

Zach might not actually have been hacked.
zachthibeau.com was hacked, www.zachthibeau.com wasn't. Zach, which is yours?

btw, for those who aren't running NoScript or a similar browser lockdown - stay away until we hear back from Zach. If he's been hacked, it's possible the hacker team left some drive-by virus garbage on his page.
These guys are clearly a genuine black-hat hacker team, as can be seen from a message on another site they've hacked (hxxp://timpani-boutique.com/index.php?osCsid=279fa061a60e8ad8eee21886b30901e4 - visit at your own risk. Link protocol has been obfuscated for security.)

===============================================================================================================
| .....::::: Security 0% :::::..... |
===============================================================================================================
STATUS : SERVER IS DOWN
HACKER : Avengers Team
NOTICE : Don't panic your file is safe
===============================================================================================================
: -==- :
| Contact Us |

Cyb3r IntRue : R0oT[at]LiVe[dot]Ru

HAQIQ20 : V7a[at]HOtMail[dot]fr


| ---------------------------|
===============================================================================================================
| Arabic Hackers |

 

Gr33tz :

| n/a |


=============================================================================================================== _

Hope these guys haven't gotten to Zach, that would be impressively bad...

[link delinked at reasonable request below - mod Chris]

"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."

Disable the link?

spg SCOTT (Homepage) - January 6, 2010 - 12:51pm

Hey computerfreaker,

Should you not disable the link, just in case?
hXXp://zachthibeau.com/

A suspicious link to a known malicious site and an embeded flash video --> doesn't look too good...
http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/www.freewebtown.com

~~To ALL, this is NOT Zach's, his redirects to: partnerpage.google.com/zachthibeau.com, which seems to be ok...still, be careful.~~

EDIT:Interestingly, I have just noticed that his PA stuff is located on hXXp://zachthibeau.com/ so I am still not sure on this one...

“There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!”Richard Feynman

I'm pretty sure the working

MaienM

(Homepage) - January 6, 2010 - 11:04am

I'm pretty sure the working google page is not actually zach's website, so I think we have to conclude he is indeed hacked. Although I can't think of any reason why anyone would want to hack him but w/e

Behold, the DutchLander has arrived.
Grammatical errors are copyrighted.

This is what they had on a

agdurrette

(Homepage) - January 6, 2010 - 11:29am

This is what they had on a hacked site "We hate denemark & israel & Usa"

"It's just an online installer. It's not going to mug you.", JTH
"The shell is the key to unlock Linux's greatest advantages."

simple...money

spg SCOTT (Homepage) - January 6, 2010 - 11:42am

Although I can't think of any reason why anyone would want to hack him but w/e

Money...Many 'legitimate sites' are becoming hacked to distribute malware

See: Every 3.6 seconds a website is infected...

..

RMB Fixed - January 6, 2010 - 12:31pm

Wow spgSCOTT, that was really a credible independent source you came up with there ..

Anyway, Iceweasel Portable is great news,
for one it makes it possible to distribute a pre-configured browser ..

Did I misinterpret that?

spg SCOTT (Homepage) - January 6, 2010 - 12:47pm

Were you being funny there?
If you follow the link in the thread, you will find it is from a report from Sophos...

Just because you 'know' it to be a safe site, doesn't mean it will always be clean...

You're right though, lets stop hijacking the thread...

sorry guys, seems alot of my

Zach Thibeau

(Homepage) - January 9, 2010 - 10:11pm

sorry guys, seems alot of my domains were targeted remotely by some hackers, I found out what they did and I'm working on restoring the domain.

your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau

Nothing to be sorry for...

spg SCOTT (Homepage) - January 10, 2010 - 8:32am

It's not your fault...this happens to many people daily...

Good luck with the cleanup, if it helps, this is what I usually post to site owners who have been hacked. The quote from DavdR may be quite helpful to you.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53265.msg451633#msg451633

Gnu IceCat 3.5.7 has been

Zach Thibeau

(Homepage) - January 12, 2010 - 1:04pm

Gnu IceCat 3.5.7 has been released, I'll compile it and post dev test 2

your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau

New version

Bruce Pascoe - January 12, 2010 - 2:22pm

If it's a new version, it starts over from Dev Test 1 again. Dev Test is like a release candidate, you only increment the DT number when you're releasing a new test of the same base app version.

Nothing changed in

Zach Thibeau

(Homepage) - January 13, 2010 - 12:02pm

Nothing changed in functionality, just some bugs fixed thats all, in my books not worth starting back at dev test 1

your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau

It Would Help

tukbuild (Homepage) - May 25, 2010 - 2:19am

If the download link wasn't broken, I would really like to try this as IceCat is a more secure browser than FireFox out of the box. I always wished that some one would make it for windows so this has to be awesome if I could download it would be better, Best regards.

"If it isn't broke don't fix it"

well for one thing I'm not

Zach Thibeau

(Homepage) - May 25, 2010 - 10:20am

well for one thing I'm not maintaining the windows build for Ice Cat anymore and secondly icecat is no more secure than a standard firefox build just fyi

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[abandoned] GNU IceCat, Portable Edition Development Test 1

Why "Portable Edition"?

but it looks cooler this way

I was always wondering about

actually the Portable Edition

When I go to the "About Icecat"....

please read the topic, I did

I'm going to stuff you head

slightly modified Firefox

Oh sweet, no registry? I

Ditto

About box fix

I'll add it in dev test 2

I went to your homepage today

Zach might not actually have

Disable the link?

I'm pretty sure the working

This is what they had on a

simple...money

..

Did I misinterpret that?

sorry guys, seems alot of my

Nothing to be sorry for...

Gnu IceCat 3.5.7 has been

New version

Nothing changed in

It Would Help

well for one thing I'm not