Firefox has now hit stable.
Iceweasel is now a transitional package.
RIP.
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/iceweasel
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/firefox-esr
Roel63 wrote:Will Icedove still exist for a while?
NoNoNo wrote:Nevermind it.
I always miss Netscape Navigator.
rudra wrote:When after opensuse I finally migrated to debian I was searching for firefox but didn't find it I felt rather at a loss. But now living for about five years with the gentle iceweasel I'm feeling very very sad.
bobg wrote:For what it's worth, I recently tried to download a huge game from GOG (18GB). Iceweasel failed three times in a row at the 5GB mark with no possibility of restarting from the point of failure. Having used Firefox in my Fedora days and being able to continue failed downloads from the point of failure, I installed Firefox and tried again. It failed at the 5GB point but provided a 'resume' option which failed again at the 10GB and subsequently the 15GB points but eventually completed the 18GB download.
As far as I can tell there was a problem with Iceweasel being able resume a failed download. I'm willing to take a little bloat if it makes that kind of difference.
mv file.extension.part file.extension
wget --continue http://site.com/files/file.extension
Wow.Do anyone even realize that Iceweasel is based on Firefox ESR not Firefox Stable.
//pref("extensions.update.enabled", true);
pref("extensions.update.enabled", false);
/ This is the Debian specific preferences file for Firefox ESR
// You can make any change in here, it is the purpose of this file.
// You can, with this file and all files present in the
// /etc/firefox-esr directory, override any preference you can see in
// about:config.
//
// Note that lockPref is allowed in these preferences files if you
// don't want users to be able to override some preferences.
// bw added these
pref("app.update.auto", false);
pref("extensions.blocklist.enabled", false);
pref("extensions.getAddons.cache.enabled", false);
pref("extensions.update.autoUpdateDefault", false);
pref("extensions.update.enabled", false);
pref("browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl", "");
pref("browser.casting.enabled", false);
pref("browser.newtabpage.directory.ping", "");
pref("browser.newtabpage.directory.source", "");
pref("browser.newtabpage.enhanced", false);
pref("browser.search.geoip.url", "");
pref("browser.search.update", false);
pref("browser.selfsupport.url", "");
pref("browser.safebrowsing.malware.reportURL", "");
pref("browser.safebrowsing.updateURL", "");
pref("browser.safebrowsing.enabled", false);
pref("browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.enabled", false);
pref("browser.search.suggest.enabled", false);
pref("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "ignore");
pref("browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled", false);
pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.bookmark", false);
pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.history", false);
pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.openpage", false);
pref("javascript.enabled", false);
pref("lightweightThemes.update.enabled", false);
pref("media.peerconnection.enabled", false);
pref("network.http.speculative-parallel-limit", 0);
pref("network.dns.disablePrefetch", true);
pref("network.prefetch-next", false);
pref("network.dns.disablePrefetchFromHTTPS", true);
pref("privacy.trackingprotection.pbmode.enabled", false)
pref("security.OCSP.enabled", 0);
pref("toolkit.telemetry.reportingpolicy.firstRun", false);
// end bw
//pref("extensions.update.enabled", true);
// Use LANG environment variable to choose locale
pref("intl.locale.matchOS", true);
// Disable default browser checking.
pref("browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser", false);
// Avoid openh264 being downloaded.
pref("media.gmp-manager.url.override", "data:text/plain,");
// Disable openh264.
pref("media.gmp-gmpopenh264.enabled", false);
// Default to classic view for about:newtab
sticky_pref("browser.newtabpage.enhanced", false);
// Disable health report upload
pref("datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled", false);
bw123 wrote:This is interesting too...
how-stop-firefox-automatically-making-connections
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ho ... onnections
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