Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] IceCat for Windows

[David Hedlund]

On 2017-11-02 05:46, The Canadian Bacon wrote:

sorry for the lateness of this. Desktop PSU kinda died and so I compiled this on my laptop which is fairly underpowered

I've only compiled the 64bit binary for now, I get my new power supply unit tomorrow so I can do a 32bit build then
https://casualgamer.ca/icecat/icecat-52.3.0.en-US.win64.zip

https://casualgamer.ca/icecat/cross-build-patches_52.3.0.tar.xz

https://casualgamer.ca/icecat/icecat-52.3.0-gnu1.tar.bz2

I'm sorry to inform that the files have been removed. There are no latest release for Windows available without them. Why did you remove them?

Keep in mind, this is an unofficial compile. But at least it's a new binary for 52.3.0

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 8:37 AM, <address@hidden> wrote:

Chris,

One thing you could try is disabling _javascript_ entirely. When you go to the home page of icecat (pressing alt+home on my computer), you will see a checkbox "Disable _javascript_".

I do this on my machine (which is not Windows) and BBC News displays well. Some things (e.g. videos) will not be functional as they require non-free _javascript_ to run.

Dom

On 31/10/17 11:45, Chris Rogers wrote:

Hi Felix,

Thanks for your reply. I've successfully downloaded and installed
IceCat from that URL you kindly sent me. I realise that the Windows
versions will lag behind the Linux versions a little.

I'm a little concerned that I'm not going to be able to use IceCat
very much as it doesn't seem to work very well. The first website I
tried was the BBC News website - a trusted source that I use all the
time. It didn't display at all in the way I expected, showing giant
graphic icons instead of the normal size, failing to arrange the
sections of the screen in their normal places and not presenting the
page very well at all.

I appreciate that this may be because the BBC is coding it in a way
that demands non-free components to run but sadly if I can't use my
preferred websites with this browser, I'll be going back to one of the
others I use.


Cheers

Chris
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