This is how I do Firefox rather than iceweasel
download Firefox
extract to my /home/Downloads
ln -s /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins /home/craig/Downloads/firefox/plugins
not ~./mozilla/plugins
opened iceweasel with iceweasel -profilemanager and created a profile for Firefox
copied my iceweasel profile to the new firefox profile
my Firefox.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Name[en_US]=Firefox
Exec=/home/craig/Downloads/firefox/firefox %u
Icon=/home/craig/Downloads/firefox/icons/mozicon128.png
StartupNotify=true
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;
Firefox runs much better than iceweasel. You might take a look at:
Switching from Debian Iceweasel to Firefox, permanently -
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about1435.html
Generated: Wed Jan 27 2010 06:11:39 GMT-0500 (EST)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build ID: 20100115133306
Installed Plugins: (11)
- Default Plugin
- DivX Browser Plug-In
- Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible
- Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_17
- mplayerplug-in is now gecko-mediaplayer 0.9.8
- OpenOffice.org Plug-in
- QuickTime Plug-in 7.4.5
- RealPlayer 9
- Shockwave Flash
- Silverlight Plug-In
- Windows Media Player Plug-in
If you want a lighter browser check out midori, arora, or uzbl.