./wip/icecat, GNU version of www/firefox

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 3.6.8, Package name: icecat-3.6.8, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

Gnuzilla is the GNU version of the Mozilla suite, and GNU IceCat is the GNU
version of the Firefox browser. Its main advantage is an ethical one: it is
entirely free software. While the source code from the Mozilla project is free
software, the binaries that they release include additional non-free software.
Also, they distribute and recommend non-free software as plug-ins.

In addition, GNU IceCat includes some privacy protection features:

1. Some sites refer to zero-size images on other hosts to keep track of
cookies. When IceCat detects this mechanism it blocks cookies from the
site hosting the zero-length image file. (It is possible to re-enable
such a site by removing it from the blocked hosts list.)
2. Other sites rewrite the host name in links redirecting the user to
another site, mainly to "spy" on clicks. When this behavior is detected,
IceCat shows a message alerting the user.


Required to run:
[sysutils/desktop-file-utils] [sysutils/libnotify] [net/libIDL] [x11/gtk2]

Required to build:
[archivers/zip] [pkgtools/x11-links] [x11/xcb-proto] [x11/fixesproto4] [pkgtools/cwrappers] [x11/xorgproto] [lang/python37]

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Filesize: 47083.277 KB

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   2013-12-14 14:17:57 by ndb | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
completed PLIST.
   2012-09-30 07:44:14 by Aleksej Saushev | Files touched by this commit (35) 
Log message:
Drop superfluous PKG_DESTDIR_SUPPORT, "user-destdir" is default these days.
Mark packages that don't or might probably not have staged installation.
   2010-08-23 15:17:07 by Yorick Hardy | Files touched by this commit (7) 
Log message:
Update to icecat 3.6.8
   2010-06-14 00:46:55 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (271) 
Log message:
Bump PKGREVISION for libpng shlib name change.
Also add some patches to remove use of deprecated symbols and fix other
problems when looking for or compiling against libpng-1.4.x.
   2010-05-11 15:29:02 by Yorick Hardy | Files touched by this commit (5) | Package removed
Log message:
These patches are not used anymore.
   2010-05-11 13:42:45 by Yorick Hardy | Files touched by this commit (65) 
Log message:
Update to icecat 3.6.3
   2009-11-28 11:10:47 by Tobias Nygren | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
remove outdated message
   2009-10-10 16:15:29 by Tobias Nygren | Files touched by this commit (10) | Package updated
Log message:
- merge patches from xulrunner
- update to 3.5.3
- reset MAINTAINER (I don't feel responsible for this package)