Re: Best practices for current Chrome/Chromium and/or Firefox/Icewasel in squeeze?

["Dr. Ed Morbius" <dredmorbius@gmail.com>]

on 16:35 Tue 26 Jul, Greg Madden (gomadtroll@gci.net) wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 26 July 2011 04:05:47 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
> > I've recently been made aware of some of the benefits of the Chrome /
> > Chromium and Firefox.
> >
> > Running Squeeze, the most recent Chromium release is from May 13, and
> > Firefox 5 isn't available either.
> >
> > I'd like to manage either / both from my package repos, but be
> > reasonably current.
> >
> > What's best practices?  Method or pointer to docs appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks.
> 
> Not sure about best practices, I like staying with stable and will use
> Debian backports.  No longer a proponent of apt pinning sid & testing,
> or other repo's.

Yeah, I've done this in the past, but my experience, especially on
laptops, is that a good configuration is a fragile thing.  Fortunately I
stick with older window managers, but my experiences with GNOME and KDE
changing out from under me have been particularly traumatic.
 
> Iceweasel (Firefox) 5.x entered Sid recently.  I think once it migrates to 
> testing, it will be a candidate for squeeze-backports.

I actually am pinning stable right now with unstable sources available.
My experience going down that route though is that it's a short trip to
frustration.
 
> I have squeeze-backports added to my sources.list &
> /etc/apt/preferences files.

I'll try that first.

Thanks.

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