![]() The other day I received a general mail from the Free Software Foundation informing me that even if Safari on High Sierra had pretty good privacy and security features, IceCat, the GNU version of Firefox, was even better. I was interested and checked the provided links to see what that browser was. With the push of a button, it also generates AppleScript statements to control any application using GUI Scripting, even applications that are not otherwise scriptable. I'm not a super fan of Mozilla stuff, but if it's GNU, then why not. PFiddlesoft: UI Browser helps you to explore, manipulate, and monitor the user interface of most macOS applications running on your computer. Owners of an existing license for UI Browser can continue to download the UI Browser 3.0.2disk image from Late Night Software's Freeware website. The last release of UI Browser, version 3.0.2, will not be updated, and support is no longer available. On the end-of-life retirement date, the PFiddlesoft website will be closed. UI Browser 3 End of Life:UI Browser 3 reached its end of life and was retired on October 17, 2022. The problem is that the links did not point at any binary or downloadable package. The current release of UI Browser, version 3.0.2, will not be updated. The only thing I could find was the FTP server, with builds for Linux. ![]() Update: It looks like there are builds of IceCat for the Mac, up to version 38.8.0 (released in May '16) on that page. I wrote to the FSF back to tell them that if they wanted to promote better solutions for macOS users, it would be more effective if the solutions were actually available, either as binaries, or as instructions to build the software.Īfter checking a bit further, I found this page with instructions to build an 11 months old version on El Capitan: A way to build IceCat 45.5.1 on MacOS El Capitan. I decided to try with the latest version of IceCat (52.3) on my High Sierra machine, and here are the amended instructions. If you do not want to go through the build process, I have uploaded the resulting icecat-52.3.0. package here, but without ANY warranty about the contents and security, and privacy and everything that you REALLY should care about when you install new software on your machine. #PFIDDLESOFT UI BROWSER ALTERNATIVES INSTALL# configure -with-l10n-base=./l10n -enable-official-branding Download IceCat Source & configure the compilation.if you miss dependencies, the configure step below will tell you and you just need to get them from Homebrew. On a side note, the other configure options found in the original instructions were all refused. If configure does not protest, you're ready. If it does, you either miss dependencies (see step 1.4. above), or you have other issues on your machine. Check the net for error messages, fix the errors, and you should be fine. When make package quits without complaining, you're ready.Now comes compiling time, and it's going to take quite some time, so get a book ready. #PFIDDLESOFT UI BROWSER ALTERNATIVES INSTALL#.
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