Re: Iceweasel 3.5
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:26:47 +0200, Vincent Lefevre in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote:
> 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)?
That's the problem I'm running into Vincent; XUL libs with the binary I downloaded
from Mozilla.org
I just got Google Chrome going -- OK can't use Flash yet, but at least it's
pretty fast on this old laptop; faster than on my dual core x64
workstation. Go figure. Maybe I can pass on Iceweasel all toghether now.
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