Setting Mozilla Firefox as default in Debian wheezy
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Setting Mozilla Firefox as default in Debian wheezy
Hi:
following extensive upgrading of Debian i386 wheezy, my installation of Mozilla Firefox was deleted. I have reinstalled it (and set as default browser), but now, to have this browser, I have to command the full path to its installation. Otherwise, Debian raises iceweasel at command "firefox".
I have nothing against iceaweasel, except that it lacks fundamental functions.
Any suggestion how to set Mozilla Firefox so that iceaweasel is not loaded?
In my feeling, life with Debian linux is becoming difficult, except for computational servers, where no server X is installed. Once gnome (particularly gnome3) is installed, I have no more command of the system. Thanks for suggestions chiendarret
Iceweasel itself is ok, just the plugins: actually those problems are solved in the newer versions of those add-ons but they are incompatible with the official iceweasel.
Iceweasel 12 works exactly the same and uses the same plugins/add-ons that Firefox 12 does.
If you want to switch to Firefox as default take a look at:
Tech Patterns :: Switching from Debian Iceweasel to Firefox, permanently - http://techpatterns.com/forums/about1435.html
Basically you need to add it to the Debian alternatives system. Follow the guide at Tech patterns.
Code:
# update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
There are 7 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing /usr/bin/x-www-browser).
Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
0 /usr/bin/google-chrome 200 auto mode
* 1 /home/craig/Downloads/firefox/firefox 100 manual mode
2 /usr/bin/google-chrome 200 manual mode
3 /usr/bin/iceweasel 70 manual mode
4 /usr/bin/konqueror 100 manual mode
5 /usr/bin/midori 50 manual mode
6 /usr/bin/uzbl-browser 10 manual mode
7 /usr/bin/xlinks2 69 manual mode
Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:
I have the same plugins and add-ons in my Iceweasel profile that I do in my Firefox profile.
Quote:
My Firefox Information
Last updated: Mon, 14 May 2012 06:11:34 GMT
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
craigdevil, the problem occured with the official iceweasel, which is firefox 3.6 or something like that at this moment. Using the mozilla repo or downloading firefox 10 or above will solve these issues, but the original release contains a really old version and some add-ons, like tabgroups does not work well with that one.
Hey I am with you, I switched to using Firefox and Thunderbird way back when Debian changed the names. I have used Firefox since back in the day when it was called Firebird and Phoenix.
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