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Re: Iceweasel 3.5



On 2009-08-12 10:35:07 +0200, Johan Grönqvist wrote:
> >>>>So how does one use the latest version of this web browser on Stable ?
> >>If I were you, I would temporarily enable testing, unstable and
> >>experimental repos, grab iceweasel and dependencies from experimental
> >>and then disabling the repos.
> >
> >Hm sounds like a plan. Do you know offhand which Debian distro has 3.5.x ?
> 
> If the experimental version needs to update a lot of libraries (many
> experimental packages do), and you have a good reason to want to run
> stable, I would instead suggest keeping with stable for almost all
> apps, and installing a chroot environment to run the few
> unstable/experimental apps you want in a more sandboxed environment.

IMHO, this is a bit complex. As Debian is always late, is there
any reason to use Iceweasel instead of Firefox from Mozilla's site
(assuming no XUL* errors)?

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