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by **Lavene** » 2008-10-29 07:42

Firefox is re-branded Iceweasel in Debian. It's identical in all but the name and artwork. To install:

Code: Select all: # aptitude install iceweasel

by **BioTube** » 2008-10-30 00:44

You should post this in every forum. God knows they've all had this question(I'm sure you could even find it in the programming one).

by **Zero** » 2008-10-31 14:39

Surely only lazy people have not managed to search, and comprehend the difference here? It doesn't take much effort at all.

by **Caligo Spiritus** » 2008-11-08 14:13

It's identical in all but the name and artwork.

That's not true - iceweasel has some security tweaks in it's source code, this fact made Debian team to rebrand to iceweasel and change artwork because of incompatibility with mozilla license.

by **BioTube** » 2008-11-08 14:25

Caligo Spiritus wrote:
It's identical in all but the name and artwork.

That's not true - iceweasel has some security tweaks in it's source code, this fact made Debian team to rebrand to iceweasel and change artwork because of incompatibility with mozilla license.

The minor patches had nothing to do with the rebranding - the fact that the artwork violated DFSG meant that it couldn't be used and Mozilla refuses to allow use of the name without use of the artwork.

by **jbdebian** » 2009-01-09 10:07

New Etch install has firefox, /usr/bin/firefox. But as was pointed out, it is iceweasel but program name is "firefox".

by **Lavene** » 2009-01-09 18:09

jbdebian wrote:New Etch install has firefox, /usr/bin/firefox. But as was pointed out, it is iceweasel but program name is "firefox".

It's actually just a link pointing to iceweasel:

Code: Select all: /usr/bin$ ls -l firefox lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 19 nov. 08:53 firefox -> ../lib/iceweasel/iceweasel

by **trey** » 2009-01-20 18:16

It's too bad firefox wasn't just placed in non-free. Epiphany works perfectly.

by **craigevil** » 2009-01-20 18:46

trey wrote:It's too bad firefox wasn't just placed in non-free. Epiphany works perfectly.

And so does Iceweasel

by **BioTube** » 2009-01-21 01:13

The executable name is 'firefox-bin'.

by **roseway** » 2009-01-21 07:24

BioTube wrote:The executable name is 'firefox-bin'.

That's the binary executable, but you don't run it directly. You run the 'firefox' script, which sets up the environment before calling the executable.

by **_FOCUS_** » 2009-01-24 17:12

Well. I understand why debian doesn't use firefox anymore.

out of topic; in hotmail service my iceweasel wasn't work. so I made change like that. iceweasel/3.05 doesn't work but firefox/3.05 works.

by **987687** » 2009-02-08 03:05

I use Shiretoko/3.1b3pre. I have always used the beta version of firefox because it is generally faster than stable. I just put it in /opt and update /usr/bin/firefox to link to the binary in /opt/firefox. And then I made /usr/bin/iceweasel a link to /usr/bin/firefox. And I also un-installed iceweasel, otherwise every time it updated it messed up my links in /usr/bin.

by **hazard** » 2009-02-17 00:56

I like mostly Opera

by **Soul Singin'** » 2009-03-03 09:15

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