[Solved]IceWeasel/ Firefox Quantum issues

[bw123]

...
Regarding Firefox; I got the tar off of Firefox's page under the Firefox for Linux link and since there was were no further specifications/choices assumed, apparently erroneously, that it was not an issue. Is there a more reliable source? I don't really want to think about having to do this but would it be a good idea to just scrub my HD and do a fresh install?

You might be able to figure things out and fix it. Use which, and look in your home for the firefox you said you installed from a tar. If these commands find something, that will give you a hint, you might have two versions. I'm guessing that the ppa ver can be removed with apt. The tar ver you should probably just delete from wherever you untared it to, but check that you did not run some script to install that.

Code: Select all

$ which firefox
$ ls ~/firefox/firefox

why don't you just find the different versions, remove them, and use the debian repository to install firefox-esr?
https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox

p.s. that ppa repo needs to go, find it under /etc/apt/somewhere and get rid of it, probably in a file in sources.list.d? yeah it's there because you showed that apt policy says it is there. If you have installed anything else from there along with another program, or apt upgrade or similar commands then you probably will need to reinstall the os to fix it.

[stevepusser]

Ummm...you installed an Ubuntu version of Firefox, then asked here why

I'm still dealing with issues here. In addition to the screencap below I am constantly getting these nag notices from Firefox in my browser to update, random errors, tons of lag, and for some reason, despite that I am using Debian, still saying that my Firefox is for Ubuntu.

Don't you see the connection? A Debian or real Ubuntu build of Firefox from source also disables the update notifications, but apparently the PPA version you installed does not--maybe they didn't build from source, but just repackaged the Mozilla binaries.

[3hre]

Ummm...you installed an Ubuntu version of Firefox, then asked here why

I'm still dealing with issues here. In addition to the screencap below I am constantly getting these nag notices from Firefox in my browser to update, random errors, tons of lag, and for some reason, despite that I am using Debian, still saying that my Firefox is for Ubuntu.

Don't you see the connection? A Debian or real Ubuntu build of Firefox from source also disables the update notifications, but apparently the PPA version you installed does not--maybe they didn't build from source, but just repackaged the Mozilla binaries.

Yes, I do see the connection. I am just overwhelmed by it at this point, did not know how that happened because there was no indicator on the DL site that it was for Ubuntu, and do not know how to fix it. You know that place you can get sometimes when you've been trying to resolve a problem for so long that your brain gets a little gooey just from the stress alone? That is where I am

[debiman]

and do not know how to fix it.

just uninstall that firefox, remove the ppa sources and any other cruft, apt update and apt upgrade, hope for the best.
failing that, reinstall debian.