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#1 2017-01-29 20:28:09

drtebi
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IceCat refuses to open google pages????

This is the weirdest thing that has happened to me so far with any browser.

I just updated IceCat to 45.5.1-5 (which required the new dependency "cargo", a huge extra install??) and since then the browser is acting anti-google.

I first thought it was only 'https' pages, but then DuckDuckGo, Yahoo etc. turned out to be working just fine via a secure connection.

I tried starting IceCat with a new profile--didn't help.
I cleared the browsing history, cookies, everything--didn't help.
I ran IceCat in SafeMode--didn't help.

It's completely unexplainable to me. With Firefox and Chrome I have no problem reaching sites in the google domain.

There doesn't seem to be a '--verbose' switch, I tried the '--g-fatal-warnings' switch, but no messages were produced.

Any ideas?

Last edited by drtebi (2017-01-29 20:29:36)

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#2 2017-01-31 00:34:57

TheColonel
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Re: IceCat refuses to open google pages????

No ideas but I just want to confirm I'm also having this issue with icecat.  No problems with any other browsers.  Had a quick look through the source code and couldn't find anything obvious.  Probably best to take it up with the icecat people.

I'm going to try running a git bisect myself, but there's no telling if that will be more fruitful than waiting it out.

Edit:  I realized I have a server with parabola installed and icecat available, and this is also happening there, but icecat hasn't been updated in that distro since about 10 days ago, and I only started noticing the issue today.  I've definitely used that box to log into gmail/search google in the past week so maybe one of icecat's dependencies broke it.

Edit2:  I was able to fix the issue by downgrading nss to cached version  (3.28.1-1 -> 3.27.2-1)  - I'm continuing looking at other options though.  It seems the fedora people also had to update icecat when nss was updated.  Details: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-g … 00019.html , https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates … e42b513012  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1414987 I'm still a bit new to the arch community so I'm not certain what's best to do with this information, other than post it here.

Last edited by TheColonel (2017-01-31 01:59:28)

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#3 2017-01-31 03:22:45

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Re: IceCat refuses to open google pages????

AUR maintainers are responsible for bumping the pkgrel of their packages when rebuilds are required. If patches are needed to build/run with updated repo packages,, that too is the AUR maintainer's responsibility.


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#4 2017-01-31 10:06:22

drtebi
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Re: IceCat refuses to open google pages????

Thank you for looking into it. At least now I know I am not crazy ☺

I guess I will just wait for an update to icecat.

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#5 2017-02-01 10:23:02

drtebi
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Re: IceCat refuses to open google pages????

I now also downgraded the nss package, and reinstalled icecat. That did the trick to make icecat work, but now Firefox refuses to open "insecure" pages, giving me "NS_ERROR_NET_INADEQUATE_SECURITY"

What is the best way to let the package maintainer know about this?

Last edited by drtebi (2017-02-01 10:41:19)

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#6 2017-02-01 12:32:06

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Re: IceCat refuses to open google pages????

Post about it on icecat' aur page .


The Redhat bug 1414987 in post #2 points to a commit [1]  Mozilla made to the esr45 branch to solve this, so next icecat release will work with nss 3.28.1 .

It's a minor change in just 1 file, if you can't wait until gnu releases new version try applying it as a patch in the prepare() function of icecat PKGBUILD .

[1] https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla … 0dd9ae6807


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#7 2017-02-02 07:41:01

drtebi
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Re: IceCat refuses to open google pages????

Thanks Lone_Wolf.

I think I can wait...

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