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firefox on debian

#1 Post by Pacopag »

Hi. I've been using Epiphany web browser, and I really like it. But now I'm trying to fill out an online application and it says that my browser is not supported. It says that Firefox is ok, but I can't seem to install it. I just searched Firefox in Synaptic, but nothing relevant comes up. Is it a big deal to install firefox in debian?

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Re: firefox on debian

#2 Post by oswaldkelso »

iceweasel is the debian version of firefox see:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 88&start=0
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Re: firefox on debian

#3 Post by Pacopag »

I tried using Iceweasle and Konquerer, but neither of them are supported either.

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#4 Post by nadir »

Try this:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 05#p253263
In case it does not work searching for "firefox +craigevil" should spit out some further threads.
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#5 Post by nadir »

You probably can simply do that:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=203564#p203564
but i never had to deal with it.
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#6 Post by deltaflyer »

or download the tar.gz from here http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html extract & then click on the firefox executable to run it
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deltaflyer wrote:or download the tar.gz from here http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html extract & then click on the firefox executable to run it
A bit much, considering the simple fix, isn't it?
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#8 Post by craigevil »

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100824 Firefox/3.6.9

Just change the user agent.
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Re: firefox on debian

#9 Post by vrkalak »

I added the Mozilla/Firefox repros to my Debian Sid sources.list ... then did an apt-get update.

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deb http://mozilla.debian.net/packages/ ./
I am using Iceweasel ... and I installed from Synaptic the newest 4.0b3 ... and now, it has upgraded me to Iceweasel 4.0b5

I suppose this would work for Firefox as well.

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