Publisher review:IceWeasel is the GNU version of the Firefox browser. Gnuzilla is the GNU version of the Mozilla suite, and IceWeasel 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 non-free software as plug-ins. (IceWeasel does keep the triple licensing used by Firefox to facilitate the reuse of code.) IceWeasel also includes some privacy protection features:
- Some sites refer to zero-size images on other hosts to keep track of cookies. When IceWeasel 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.)
- Other sites rewrite the host name in links redirecting the user to another site, mainly to "spy" on clicks. When this behavior is detected, IceWeasel shows a message alerting the user.
IceWeasel 1.5.0.7 is a C/C++ script for Internet, Browsers and Tools scripts design by Giuseppe Scrivano.
It runs on following operating system: Linux / BSD.
IceWeasel is the GNU version of the Firefox browser.
Operating system:Linux / BSD