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GNU IceCat is a "de-mozillaed"[^] Firefox LTS:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

It seems it is mostly maintained within GNU Guix now (which has 91.3.0).

[^]: It comes with its own set of opinionated (but privacy-friendly) add-ons.



Unfortunately, upstream IceCat appears to use the FireFox 60.x ESR branch, which is three branches behind the current ESR and is past its end-of-life date. It's also a few security updates behind the 60.x ESR branch's last release.

The GUIX package is more recent, but its description states:

> WARNING: IceCat 91 has not yet been released by the upstream IceCat project. This is a preview release, and does not currently meet the privacy-respecting standards of the IceCat project.


It reminds me when Debian shipped with "Iceweasel" instead of Firefox because of some licensing nonsense.




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