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Fedora 25 Icecat 52.0.1 Security Update: Enhanced Privacy Features

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Calendar Grey April 7, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The release of Frostbite 32.4.5 introduces essential fixes along with upgraded security enhancements for safer online navigation.
- Update to 52.0.1 - All patches synchronized with firefox

Summary

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

Extensions included to this version of IceCat:

* LibreJS

GNU LibreJS aims to address the JavaScript problem described in Richard

Stallman's article The JavaScript Trap.

* SpyBlock

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

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

* AboutIceCat

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

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

* Fingerprinting countermeasures: Fingerprinting is a series of techniques

allowing to uniquely identify a browser based on specific characterisics of

that particular instance (like what fonts are available in that machine).

Unlike cookies the user cannot opt-out of being tracked this way,

so the browser has to avoid giving away that kind of hints.

Update Information:

- Update to 52.0.1 - All patches synchronized with firefox

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1429252 - icecat does not compile on aarch64 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1429252

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade icecat' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: icecat
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 52.0.1
Release: 5.fc25
Summary: GNU version of Firefox browser

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