Author: Phillip Chandler Date: To: adam.trickett, Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Debian Lenny + Firefox 2.0.0.17
+PrefbarCorrection to first email.
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 11:53 +0100, Dr Adam J Trickett wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 at 10:22:15AM +0100, Phillip Chandler wrote:
> > Hi Everyone.
> >
> > Heres todays brain teaser.
> >
> >
> > I installed Debian Lenny on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1200) last week. I
> > removed Iceweasel using apt-get remove iceweasel, and then ran nautilus
> > as root, and deleted all folders relating to mozilla.
> >
> > I then unzipped firefox 2.x.17 into my home folder, installed libstdc
> > ++5, created a link to the right file and it ran perfectly.
>
>
> Why, what is wrong with Iceweasel? it's just Firefox without the
> Mozilla branding and Firefox name. It works fine for me with
> normal Firefox add-ons. Other than a logo you wouldn't know you
> you were not using Firefox.
>
Unfortunately whether I use Iceweasel or firefox, the same problem
happens. And as you say, iceweasel is just firefox without the branding.
But this doesnt mean that a problem in firefox would also not work in
iceweasel.
My non technical idea is that lenny (and iceweasel) are done so that
they both work well together, without the MS integration of win xp & IE,
whereas they have taken ff and taken out all the branding and maybe
changed a few other things, which could effectively make it not work so
well under lenny, but iceweasel does.
Im guessing its an incompatibility issue because of all the guff you
need to run version 3.0.3 (of whatever browser) under the distro. And in
removing 3.0.3 and the sql database you could be stuffing up something
else.
But not being as technical as you chaps, Im only guessing because of
whats happened. Regardless of what browser ver 2.x I have, prefbar
doesnt work 100%, which under ubuntu & ff 2.0.17 works great.
So just wanting to see if there was some switch I needed to change, or
add something to about:config etc.
