Will icecat and or iceweasel and or iceape and or icedove be packaged for Ubuntu Linux

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 16:27:16 +0200, Tom H wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 9:42 PM Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>>
>> As mozilla is shutting down mailing list support for firefox and
>> seamonkey and all other support mailing lists that it hosts, and,
>> as Debian apparently abandoned iceweasel and iceape and icedove and
>> none of these are available in the Ubuntu repository, and GNU
>> icecat is apparently only available in tarball form (which caused
>> snowballing problems with Netscape and its products), will any or
>> all of these, become packaged and maintained for Ubuntu Linux, and,
>> supported via mailing lists?  
>
>iceape, icedove, iceowl, iceweasel stopped being developed by Debian
>because it settled its copyright problem with Mozilla. Ubuntu never
>had them in its repos.
>
>iceweasel and icedove were replaced by firefox and thunderbird in the
>Debian repos. I'm not sure about iceape and iceowl.

FWIW IceCat is different. The idea of IceCat is nice, but renders it
more or less useless. For example, check "GNU LibreJS" to block nonfree
JavaScript and visit https://www.thomann.de/gb/index.html , just to see
that all pictures are gone. IOW what you get is a version of Firefox
that is outdated since years, with unusable features. I seriously doubt
that such an aged release of Firefox is secure, even if all those
privacy features could be used.
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