There is another reason to install Iceweasel I noted, the i386 Iceweasel 15 deb is about 2.5MB to download, while Firefox from Mozilla is 18.4MB. I think this is probably because the Mozilla download is compiled as a more or less stand alone installation, while the .deb depends on various libraries already installed with Debian. Using a Firefox .deb from another distro like Mepis as suggested would get around this perhaps, but I think I may have solved the Firefox from Mozilla installation question! It takes less than an hour when you get the hang of itcraigevil wrote:wow rather than go through all that I would just shoot myself.
Just install Iceweasel.
There was a bug in the iceweasel_3.5.16-13_i386.deb iceweasel.desktop file by the way:
StartupWMClass=Firefox-bin
xprop says WM_CLASS(STRING) = "Navigator", "Iceweasel"
This should read :
StartupWMClass=Iceweasel
to agree with xprop's output, or the desktop may give occasional errors shutting down Iceweasel.
This is not the current Iceweasel version package, so maybe it has been fixed now?