We are pleased to announce the first official release of GNU IceCat, the GNU version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. You can get IceCat from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/ and all GNU mirrors (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html).
While the basic Mozilla Firefox source code is free software, and we thank them for their significant contributions to the community, some non-free files are distributed in the Firefox source tree, and Firefox can recommend non-free plugins. IceCat is entirely free. In addition, GNU IceCat includes some privacy protection features: 1. Some sites refer to zero-size images on other hosts to keep track of cookies. When IceCat detects this mechanism it blocks cookies from the site hosting the zero-length image file. (It is possible to re-enable such a site by removing it from the blocked hosts list.) 2. Other sites rewrite the host name in links redirecting the user to another site, mainly to "spy" on clicks. When this behavior is detected, IceCat shows a message alerting the user. Feedback on these features is welcome. The home page for IceCat is http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla. We would be grateful for volunteers to help with development, especially regarding plugins. Happy Hacking! _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
