Iceweasel 7.0.1 available on Debian Testing

Alejandro (a.k.a KZKG^Gaara)

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I've been using for so long Firefox From a .tar.gz that I had not realized that it is already available in the repositories of Debian Testing, iceweasel 7.0.1.

For those who do not know, Iceweasel is a fork of Firefox maintained by Debian, as it well says Wikipedia:

Iceweasel is the name of a project derived (fork) of Mozilla Firefox, a renamed compilation, prepared by Debian, to solve the demand made by Mozilla that forced them to stop using the name or to abide by its terms, which are unacceptable within Debian policies. Not to be confused with the name IceWeasel (with W capital letter) which is an independent project renamed GNU IceCat, a GNU project to supply versions of Mozilla programs made up entirely of free software.

Debian Iceweasel is based on a modified version of Firefox, in which Mozilla's trademarks are replaced by free ones, and additional security enhancements are incorporated following Debian's security update policy. Iceweasel is the default browser for Debian Etch and later versions. Thunderbird and SeaMonkey were renamed Icedove and Iceape respectively, in the same way and for the same reason.

Iceweasel still uses some Mozilla-based Internet services, such as the Mozilla aggregate search service and the update notifier. There has also been no change in how the non-free components work or can be obtained.

As always, Debian is committed to providing security fixes for any version of Iceweasel that is included in its stable releases until support for those releases ends.

I hardly ever install it because it has always been out of date with respect to the stable version of the Fire fox. Or rather, it was, because apparently the boys of Debian the batteries have been put in with the updates of Testing. Typically, a user of Debian you may have the latest version of Iceweasel from this link.


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  1.   gnumax said
    ago 13 years

    Thanks for the information, the truth is that I'm used to Firefox 7 sometimes this Iceweasel costs me, but better to be stable. 😉

    It is a Testing so I do not see very viable to update! 🙂

    regards

    Reply to gnumax
    1.    KZKG ^ Gaara <° Linux said
      ago 13 years

      Actually Debian Repos Testing is extremely stable, really, the probability of crashing or instability is extremely low 😉

      Try if you want, if it turns out bad you will always have Firefox, or Chromium or any other 😉

      Reply to KZKG ^ Gaara <° Linux