Firefox-esr¶
During the latest update of the stable branch of Debian (Jessie) I noticed the selected package ‘firefox-esr’. After installing the update I got the following message:
The iceweasel package was replaced with the firefox-esr package.
Preferences under /etc/iceweasel/prefs will need to be copied manually to /etc/firefox-esr.
- Other customizations under /etc/iceweasel will need additional manual steps, through CCK2 or addons.
— Mike Hommey glandium@debian.org Mon, 7 Mar 2016 07:45:02 +0900
Ok, this message took me by surprise. After using Debian and Iceweasel for several years I wondered what happened to the iceweasel package?
A quick google search told me that the Debian project finally switched back to Firefox. Mike Hommey, maintainer of the Iceweasel package wrote about the change on his blog.
Other interesting links on this topic:
- https://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel
- https://lwn.net/Articles/676799/
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815006
If you have any questions, suggestions, thoughts and comments please feel free to email me.
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