Re: error trying to launch the first firefox window on Debian Jessie
On Friday 17 June 2016 16:29:51 Dalios wrote:
> On 06/16/2016 08:50 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> snip
>
> > 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...
Have you tried upgrading again? There may be some new updates. And have you
done full-upgrade? (dist-upgrade in apt-get)? To get rid of old stuff that
will now get in the way.
Lisi
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