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Re: Missing Tor Button
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Mark H Weaver |
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Re: Missing Tor Button |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:12:50 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Raghav,
Raghav Gururajan <address@hidden> writes:
> I use Guix System (guix.gnu.org) as GNU+Linux OS Distribution.
> After recent update on Icecat, the Tor button (add-on) disappeared from
> Icecat.
> What was the reason?
It was not intentional. I cannot speak for the IceCat project, but I
think it's safe to say that they intend to continue including the Tor
button in IceCat.
There are several unresolved issues in Guix's preview of IceCat-68,
which has *not* yet been released by the IceCat project, and probably
does not yet meet the privacy standards of the IceCat project. The only
reason I updated to this unfinished version in Guix was because the
alternative (leaving users to use a browser with many published security
flaws) seemed worse.
I'm currently overloaded with other urgent tasks unrelated to IceCat,
but I'm doing what I can to gradually fix the remaining issues in Guix's
preview of IceCat-68.
Regarding the Tor button, I guess that it has something to do with the
following message, which I see printed in the text output when I run
'icecat' manually from a shell:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
1572378945089 addons.xpi-utils WARN addMetadata: Add-on
tortm-browser-button@jeremybenthum is invalid: Error: Invalid addon ID:
expected addon ID tortm-browser-button@jeremybenthum, found undefined in
manifest(resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIDatabase.jsm:2715:15) JS Stack trace:
address@hidden:2715:15
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Would you like to look into it? I would be grateful for the help.
In the meantime, you could try installing the extension from here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tortm-browser-button/
although I caution that many addons on that site are nonfree software,
so please make sure to always check the licenses.
Mark