NFT5 wrote: No question that there is a vast amount of information out there on almost any problem that one may have. But it's scattered all over the place, between the Wiki, the Manual, the forum(s) and various other web sites.
Pretty much everything I meant by this thread, condensed into one sentence. Thanks. It's the nested searches that are both worst and most common: search for one thing, find something describing what to do, but involving five actions that each are unknown to me, requiring search, which ends up with five new searches each... Like a Hydra.
This is also a thing: I had no idea Iceweasel had stopped updating. I'm still running v. 38.8.0, which probably means it has as many security holes as a sieve.stevepusser wrote:We give advice to use the command line because, unlike certain other OS types, which rhyme with shmindows and shmapple, *nixes have a multitude of different desktops, GUI configuration tools, editors and so on, but the terminal commands will always be the same, and work.
On Wheezy, you can install a newer Iceweasel/Firefox from mozilla.debian.net or directly from Mozilla. Newer versions will need gstreamer1.0 plugin and libav packages from the wheezy-backports for HTML5 video. Youtube pushes HTML 5 video to versions >= 40 automatically.
Similar gstreamer requirements are necessary for the Firefox derived Pale Moon browser--I maintain a repository which autobuilds Debian 7, 8, and Ubuntu packages: https://software.opensuse.org/download. ... e=palemoon
The Debian handbook may also be of use: https://debian-handbook.info/get/now/
mozilla.debian.net has the following text: "WARNING: Iceweasel is gone. Please update your apt sources." and the latest version of Iceweasel to choose from is esr38. What to make of that? They quit keeping it up to date and are recommending Firefox instead? Wikipedia Iceweasel page quote: "with the stable branch planning to switch [to Firefox] after Iceweasel's end of life".
End of life? What's the "end of life" for a browser?
