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Fedora 26: icecat 52.0.1 Security Update - Privacy Enhancements

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Calendar Grey April 4, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Icecat for Fedora 26 has been upgraded to version 52.0.1, aligning with the latest Firefox improvements to boost security and privacy features.
- 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

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora web browser privacy enhancement icecat GNUZilla

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 26
Version: 52.0.1
Release: 5.fc26
URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
Summary: GNU version of Firefox browser

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora web browser privacy enhancement icecat GNUZilla

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