Re: error trying to launch the first firefox window on Debian Jessie

[Dalios <dalios@eumx.net>]

On 06/16/2016 08:50 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
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> There seems to be sort of a "quantum dis-entanglement" in this browser 
> transition (and I am reading between the lines, thinking your problem is 
> related to this) because in one swell foop they've disabled the help 
> menu's of quite a few programs that used iceweasel as their reader for 
> html docs, whether it was a file on your own machine, or a link to a 
> site on the web serving up the latest docs, which of course do NOT apply 
> to the 3 year old stable versions of the programs served up by the 
> repo's
> 
> I solved it here the hard, no doubt totally unapproved way, I 
> copied /usr/lib/firefox to /usr/lib/iceweasel and then made softlinks in 
> the copied directory from iceweasel to firefox.  And those programs that 
> serve up their help menu's with iceweasel are once again "fat, dumb, and 
> happy".
> 
> Tain't right, it will not be updated, but in that event I'll just edit 
> the softlinks to actually reference the real thing & nuke the rest of 
> that directory as wasted  disk space.
> 
> I have no clue what they were thinking when they yanked iceweasel out by 
> the roots. I doubt they even considered that something else might be 
> dependent on iceweasel/iceweasel as a name.
> 
> What should have happened was that iceweasel was updated to be an empty 
> package except for that /usr/lib/iceweasel directory and the softlinks 
> to firefox.
> 
> Grrrrrouuuufffff in the general direction of TPTB.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> 

Thanks for your effort and your feedback but I don't think that is a
good solution for me. Maybe I should try re-installing firefox...

Thanks anyway
Dalios