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Fedora 21: Icecat Security Update Notification - Enhanced Privacy Features

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Calendar Grey November 10, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 21 receives a critical Icecat update, improving its privacy controls and security measures. Discover more information here!
icecat-38.3.0-10.fc23 - Rebuild with RPM_LD_FLAGS - Activated hardened_build icecat-38.3.0-10.fc22 - Rebuild with RPM_LD_FLAGS - Activated hardened_build icecat-38.3.0-10.fc21 - Re...

Summary

GNUZilla Icecat is a fully-free fork of Mozilla Firefox.

Four extensions are included to this version of IceCat:

* LibreJS 6.0.10.20150620

GNU LibreJS aims to address the JavaScript problem described in Richard

Stallman''s article The JavaScript Trap.

* SpyBlock 2.6.9.0

Blocks privacy trackers while in normal browsing mode, and all third party

requests when in private browsing mode. Based on Adblock Plus.

* AboutIceCat 1.0

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 0.3.3

Uses the native video player to play embedded videos from different sources

Update Information:

icecat-38.3.0-10.fc23 - Rebuild with RPM_LD_FLAGS - Activated hardened_build icecat-38.3.0-10.fc22 - Rebuild with RPM_LD_FLAGS - Activated hardened_build icecat-38.3.0-10.fc21 - Rebuild with RPM_LD_FLAGS - Activated hardened_build

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora hardening browser privacy enhancements Icecat

Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-d0e48b2eb1 2015-11-09 20:14:23.881187
Name : icecat Product : Fedora 21 Version : 38.3.0 Release : 10.fc21 URL : Summary : GNU version of Firefox browser Description : GNUZilla Icecat is a fully-free fork of Mozilla Firefox. Four extensions are included to this version of IceCat:
* LibreJS 6.0.10.20150620 GNU LibreJS aims to address the JavaScript problem described in Richard Stallman''s article The JavaScript Trap.
* SpyBlock 2.6.9.0 Blocks privacy trackers while in normal browsing mode, and all third party requests when in private browsing mode. Based on Adblock Plus.
* AboutIceCat 1.0 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 0.3.3 Uses the native video player to play embedded videos from different sources

Update Instructions

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 .

Name: icecat
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 38.3.0
Release: 10.fc21
URL:
Summary: GNU version of Firefox browser

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora hardening browser privacy enhancements Icecat

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