Tenfourfox 38.3.02/28/2023 ![]() In 2006, Mozilla withdrew their permission for Debian to use the Firefox name due to significant changes to the browser that Mozilla deemed outside the boundaries of its policy, changes which Debian felt were important enough to keep, and Debian revived the Iceweasel name in its place. However, because the artwork in Firefox had a proprietary copyright license at the time, which was not compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines, the substituted logo had to remain. At night, the ice weasels come." ĭebian was originally given permission to use the trademarks, and adopted the Firefox name. The term "ice weasel" appeared earlier in a line which Matt Groening fictionally attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche: " Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. There was no release based on Firefox 1.5.0.5 or 1.5.0.6. The first Gnuzilla IceWeasel release was based on the 1.5.0.4 version of Firefox. In August 2005, the Gnuzilla project adopted the GNU IceWeasel name for a rebranded distribution of Firefox that made no references to nonfree plugins. ![]() By January 1, 2005, rebranding was being referred to as the "Iceweasel route". It was intended as a parody of "Firefox." Iceweasel was subsequently used as the example name for a rebranded Firefox in the Mozilla Trademark Policy, and became the most commonly used name for a hypothetical rebranded version of Firefox. The first known use of the name in this context is by Nathanael Nerode, in reply to Eric Dorland's suggestion of "Icerabbit". During this debate, the name "Iceweasel" was coined to refer to rebranded versions of Firefox. ![]() This policy led to a long debate within the Debian Project in 20. Unless distributions use the binary files supplied by Mozilla, fall within the stated guidelines, or else have special permission, they must compile the Firefox source with a compile-time option enabled that creates binaries without the official branding of Firefox and related artwork, using either the built-in free artwork, or artwork provided at compile time. I've been slack on some other fun posts and I'll try to catch up on those soon as my situation permits.The Mozilla Corporation owns trademark to the Firefox name and denies the use of the name "Firefox" to unofficial builds that fall outside certain guidelines. As always, the browser goes live on Monday evening Pacific time. You can still consider trying it on your own Power Mac and seeing if that helps, but I've abandoned this line of enhancement for the time being and it remains enabled by default in 38.3. Although it was a win on my systems, a few of you reported it made them somewhat worse, and not enough people reported a difference to really outweigh them. Because of these issues, official MP3 support is still delayed for the time being.ĭisabling incremental garbage collection in lieu of periodic full collections of the tenured heap appears to be a mixed bag with respect to performance. The remaining questionable bug allegedly has to do with modal drop-down-sheet requesters becoming unresponsive, which in turn makes the browser halt (more accurately it goes into a loop where it ignores other events), but I can't get it to do so reliably. If I can't figure this out, forcing it to save uncompressed backups a la TenFourFox 31 should not be exceptionally hard. In addition, the new jsonlz4 compressed JSON bookmark backup format seems to be bogus despite setting all the proper endian options near as I can tell, so I'm not sure why it's writing invalid data. The patch I added to 38.3.0 seems to wallpaper the intermittent crash that can result from it though not the incorrect behaviour it causes with the JITs (but it does restore correct behaviour with the naked interpreter, which was not the case in 38.2.x), although I don't think this is the cause of some of the unreproducible crashes a few people have reported - YMMV. ![]() We have an issue with what appears to be exact rooting and may be partially a compiler bug, but I can only reproduce it on Github, and only specifically with one particular operation. Currently I'm tracking two confirmed bugs and one questionable one, none of which are fully fixed yet. TenFourFox 38.3.0 is now available for testing ( release notes, hashes, downloads). Try as I might, however, I could not find any XUL in it ( there is no XUL, only WebExtensions).
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