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As you may or may not know, there is a controversy over Chromium. LibrePlanet says Chromium might not be free, while Debian includes it in main. In addition, Parabola recommends removing all Chromium code, including Electron, which is a component of Riot Desktop.
This is bad news for the Riot Desktop. To be a free software Skype replacement, it must work without proprietary softare or dependencies. Luckily, little sacrifice is needed for this. Instead of using the desktop app, just run it in IceCat.
But, I know what you're thinking. This is ugly!
That's
true! But, we can easily change that, and I'll show you how. All
it takes i s just a few steps.
First, create a new profile.
Create Profile...
Next
Enter new profile name:, type Riot
Finish
Now, set up IceCat.
Home Pagetext entry box, type https://riot.im/app/
Riotin its name. (If you don't see the hidden folder .mozilla/ in your home directory, try revealing them with Ctrl+H or Ctrl+.)
chromeand go into it.
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); #navigator-toolbox { display: none }
You should now have a version of IceCat dedicated to running Riot.
There are a few #issues with the setup.
IceCat