GNU IceCat

>2017
>Not using GNU IceCat on your BlackBerry 10 device

What's your excuse, Sup Forums?

I buy better memes and don't run commie software.

bb10 os is not a meme
it is a glorious qnx-based mobile operating system with its core gui components built upon qt

it is better than anything else on the market

i'm good with icecat on lineage on my s4

This is true, but the fact that it has no native apps for popular communication tools like whatsapp (or has the deadline been increased?) or telegram makes it useless. Yes, you can install the APKs, but the notifications of android apps does not work well with the BBHub, which makes them useless.

jesus that's a lot of tabs

i don't actually use my phone for browsing much
my desktop on the other hand... i have 225 tabs open

How do I install it?

Will it ever update its firefox base?

I've never understood this, why not just "bookmark all tabs" and go back to them when you want to?

via fdroid

takes about 6 minutes to install on bb10's android runtime because icecat is just a slightly more fossed up version of firefox and firefox is goddamn huge.

i'll forget about them if i just bookmark everything i look away from for a moment
i have only a small handful of bookmarks, things i rarely come back to *and* have difficulty remember the name of

if you use chrome or similar, you might find it hard to imagine managing so many tabs, but it's just the browser, it's not made for people who use >10 tabs or so

It's based on firefox ESR and inherits all updates from that.
There was a period where Icecat was barely maintained, but that's not the case anymore.

it's always based on the latest of the older esr branch.

whatsapp'll still work for a few more months i think. i've never used it though. thing works great for managing my 7 email accounts, multiple google calendars, tons of photos and music, and texting and calls and running most android apps (and what bb10 native apps i use are very slick). most responsive mobile OS i've ever used.

somehow, NOT having the content of my messages in telegram showing up on my HUB seems more like a security feature than a flaw. I tend to be a pretty big fan of the android apps and notification system being limited on the hub, and only blinking a light/ showing an over all notification that the app has new information. Its running on a software abstraction layer anyhow, it is exactly like complaining pidgin on debian, inside your VMware Player program on windows cannot give you toast notifications through the windows GUI.

And to be 100% fair, telegram uses its own notification background services and does not exactly work well on android either. If you turn off its always-on notification service, it will randomly self terminate as well. Sometimes the service causes issues with notifications randomly turning off after a while, or cause other weird interplay conflicts with the android notification system

also forgot to mention that telegram does show the names of the contacts that have sent you new stuff on the BB10 hub, just not the content of what has been sent.

the point of telegram and whatsapp are to provide some (albeit i have no idea how much) level of privacy over your digital communication. Having it push information such as text to your hub or android tray seem like that would be a conflict with their stated goals of absolute security.

On windows and linux, they do not show you the name of who has just sent you a message, or the content. Just a red marker on the taskbar icon. Its toast notifications are handled internally and not passed on to the host OS nor its title bar name amended to show the new message.

more distros should put icecat in their repos

I have LineageOS.
W-Where I can download GNU IceCat?

it's on f-droid as IceCatMobile

Because i use IceFoxe

The stock browser's already pretty great

Cute logo.