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- Gnuzilla
- GNU IceCat (originally GNU IceWeasel) is part of GNUzilla (the GNU version of the Mozilla Application Suite). GNU IceCat is based on the the current Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR), with removal of trademarked name, trademarked artwork, and proprietary components, and enhanced privacy settings.⚠ Outdated official binary release
Since 2019, IceCat is maintained only as source code. The last IceCat binary release was version 60.7.0, and is no longer supported. Guix and Parabola have up-to-date IceCat binaries. Please ask your distro to package IceCat.However, IceCat is not a straight fork of Firefox ESR; instead, it is a parallel effort that works closely with and re-bases in synchronization on the latest Firefox ESR as the upstream supplier, with patches merged upstream whenever possible; although it should be noted that additional security updates are customized to IceCat occasionally.
Differences between IceCat and Firefox ESR
Important differences between Mozilla's Firefox and GNU IceCat is that IceCat has a focus on freedom and privacy (see settings.js for details).
- Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) is not implemented: Whereas Firefox are being created such that they support Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) systems through their implementation of the Encrypted Media Extension (EME), GNU IceCat doesn't include an EME implementation as it opposes efforts to popularize and ease the dissemination of DRM technology.
- Widevine Content Decryption Module provided by Google Inc. is not installed in about:addons > Plugins
- The Play DRM-controlled content option (used to download and enable Widevine Content Decryption Module provided by Google Inc.) has been removed from about:preferences > Content
- "Accept third-party cookies: Never"
- WebRTC is enabled like in Firefox but prevent leaking the LAN ip. (Test WebRTC)
- The proprietary web chat IRC client Mibbit has been removed.
- Telemetry is disabled.
- DuckDuckGo is the default search engine, which means that you can run "!Bangs" keywords in the location bar to use any search engine.
Philosophy
"We will always make IceCat block non-free JavaScript by default. If you want to permit nonfree software to run, you can easily disable LibreJS." - Richard Stallman
Customized add-ons
- SpyBlock (Adblock Plus fork) to block privacy trackers.
History
GNU IceCat was formerly known as GNU IceWeasel but changed its name in 2008 to avoid confusion with Debian IceWeasel (who was rebranded back to Firefox in 2017 after Debian was being granted special permission from Mozilla ref).
The GNU IceCat developers dropped support for IceCatMobile on Replicant after version 38.6.0 because these builds are already provided by F-Droid. See Collection:Replicant for more information about IceCatMobile in the F-Droid repository.
GNU IceCat developers dropped support for macOS, and Windows, after version 38.8.0 in 2016: "Note that building binary packages for Windows and macOS currently requires non-free software, so we no longer distribute binary releases for those platforms."
See also
- Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) is not implemented: Whereas Firefox are being created such that they support Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) systems through their implementation of the Encrypted Media Extension (EME), GNU IceCat doesn't include an EME implementation as it opposes efforts to popularize and ease the dissemination of DRM technology.
- Gsequencer
- Advanced GTK+ Sequencer (AGS) is intended to use for music composition. It features a piano roll, as well a synth, matrix editor, drum machine, soundfont2 player, mixer and an output panel. Further it has LADSPA, DSSI and Lv2 plugin support. It's designed to be highly configurable. You may add effects to its effect chain; and add or remove audio channels/pads. You may set up a fully functional network of engines, thus there is a link editor for linking audio lines. AGS requires a realtime kernel and ALSA support. AGS uses conditional locks to keep several threads in sync that's why you need at least a preemptable kernel. LADSPA support has been added to version 0.4.2 as well export to WAV. Version 0.5.x brings you first concurrent audio tree processing support. Version 0.6.x is dedicated to accessibility. You might control GSequencer by keyboard. As you move to a note it provides you an audible feedback. Version 0.7.x gives you the benefit of providing the libraries libags, libags-thread, libags-server, libags-audio and libgsequencer. It contains for now an automation editor. Open Sound System (OSS4) and JACK Audio Connection Kit support has been added recently. Now you may configure multiple soundcards. Since 0.7.111 there is MIDI input available. Let you record your MIDI instrument and doing live performance. Version 0.8.x extended MIDI support to import/export SMF. A built-in envelope editor and additional editing functionality like move/crop selected notes. Version 0.9.x added automation editor. Version 1.0.x released implemented sticky controls. Version 1.1.x segmented AgsNotation and AgsAutomation. Version 1.2.x improved audio backend support and improved accessibility by using Atk+ interfaces. Migrated to segmented AgsNotation , Version 1.3.x migrated to segmented AgsAutomation. Version 1.4.x AgsWave and AgsBuffer have arrived in libags_audio.so Version 2.0.x provides new machines AgsEqualizer10, AgsSpectrometer and AgsAudiorec. Wave form manipulation and recording capabilities. Version 2.1.x has got initial OSC content model support. The provided OSC server allows you to do remote control. Version 2.2.x support for GCC builtin vector functions and added complex data type support. Version 2.3.x added new machines AgsFMSynth, AgsFMSyncsynth and AgsPitchSampler. Support for WASAPI. Version 3.0.x added GObject-Introspection annotations. Implemented AgsServer providing basic HTTP authentication using XMLRPC library libsoup-2.4. Added online help browser to view the user manual within UI by using WebKit2Gtk-4.0. Further providing support for AGS-OSC-OVER-XMLRPC and migrated to Gtk-3. Allow the user to perform fast export to audio file with AgsAudiorec. Version 3.3.x provides a new effect processors, the ags-fx engine. All recalls have got a replacement in order to operate with one single iteration per tic. Further the staging program is modifiable. Version 3.4.x implemented AgsSFZSynthGenerator and AgsSF2SynthGenerator allowing you to pitch missing samples. Version 3.6.x implemented AgsGstreamerFile capable of reading common media files using gstreamer. Version 3.12.x implemented composite editor. Version 4.0.x migrated to Gtk4 and libsoup-3.0. Version 4.1.x implemented zoom in PDF manual. Version 5.0.x improved vst3 api reference manual. Version 5.2.x implemented tremolo, vibrato and wah-wah of SFZ and Soundfont2 synths. Version 5.4.x fixed automation editor. Version 6.0.x implemented initial MIDI v2.0 support. Version 6.1.x implemented note 256th support. Version 6.2.x fixed more accurate timing. Version 6.4.x implemented auto-scroll. Version 6.5.x fixed tool dialogs. Version 6.6.x refactored file dialog.
- HandBrake
- HandBrake is a graphical video converter.
Features:
- Title / Chapter selection
- Queue up multiple encodes
- Chapter Markers
- Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT)
- Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding
- Support for VFR, CFR and VFR
- Video Filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and scaling
- Live Video Preview
- Helm
- Helm is a cross-platform, lightweight, polyphonic, and modular synthesizer that runs on GNU/Linux, Mac, and Windows as a standalone program and as a LV2/VST/AU/AAX plugin. It was developed by Matthew Tytel, who also later worked on Vital.
Features
- 32 voice polyphony
- Interactive visual interface
- Powerful modulation system with live visual feedback
- Dual oscillators with cross modulation and up to 15 unison oscillators each
- Sub oscillator with shuffle waveshaping
- Oscillator feedback and saturation for waveshaping
- 12 different waveforms
- Blending between 12 or 24dB low/band/high pass filter
- Low/Band/High Shelf filters
- 2 monophonic and 1 polyphonic LFO
- Step sequencer
- Lots of modulation sources including polyphonic aftertouch
- Simple arpeggiator
- Effects: Formant filter, stutter, delay, distortion, reverb
- Icecast
- Icecast is a streaming media server which currently supports WebM and Ogg streaming including the Opus, Vorbis and Theora codecs. Also Icecast can handle other streams like MP3/AAC/NSV in legacy mode, but this is not officially supported. It can be used to create an Internet radio station or a privately running jukebox and many things in between. It is very versatile in that new formats can be added relatively easily and supports open standards for communication and interaction. Icecast was first released in 1999 as an alternative to proprietary and patent-encumbered streaming audio technologies of the day, which included both RealAudio and Shoutcast. Later, Icecast 2 brought improved metadata support, compatibility with Shoutcast clients, and more advanced configuration options, which were features that lead to widespread adoption in the internet radio community.
- Ipfs
- pleas add
- Jjmpeg
- jjmpeg is a hand-rolled object-oriented native Java binding for a number libraries in FFmpeg together with some re-usable high level components that make reading and writing media files trivial. The various C structures are represented directly by garbage collectable Java objects and native accessors. Functions take native objects directly simplifying the internal Java-side scaffolding.
- LBRY Desktop
- An application to browse the decentralized LBRY network. It is developed by LBRY Inc. and is the main program for browsing LBRY.
- Lib-Ray Video Tools
- LRVT is the reference implementation of Lib-Ray, a video standard for fixed media with no technical restrictions like encryption or region codes. It is proposed as a replacement for restricted formats like DVD and Blu-ray, and builds on existing open standards like HTML5 and MKV. The end result is a DRM-free format that supports interactive menus and video playback from a disc, flash memory card or other fixed storage.
- Libav
- Libav is a complete, cross-platform solution to decode, encode, record, convert and stream audio and video. This package contains the avplay multimedia player, the avserver streaming server, the avconv audio and video encoder, and the avprobe stream analyzer. They support most existing file formats (AVI, MPEG, OGG, Matroska, ASF...) and encoding formats (MPEG, DivX, MPEG4, AC3, DV...). Additionally, it contains the qt-faststart utility which rearranges Quicktime files to facilitate network streaming. This package also serves as a replacement for the former 'ffmpeg' package.
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