I have upgraded iceweasel yesterday (March 3rd) and have similar problems. To the one reported by Adrien Clerc I want to add the issue starting iceweasel using sensible-browser link: instead of opening a new window, a new tab is opened in most recent window and points to my home directory.
$ /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display x-www-browser x-www-browser - status is manual. link currently points to /usr/bin/iceweasel Package: iceweasel Version: 2.0.0.2+dfsg-2 Severity: wishlist -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.20 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages iceweasel depends on: ii debianutils 2.17.5 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii fontconfig 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libatk1.0-0 1.12.4-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.2.4-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.6-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.20-5 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libmyspell3c2 1:3.1-18 MySpell spellchecking library ii libpango1.0-0 1.14.8-5 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-5 X11 client-side library ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxp6 1:1.0.0.xsf1-1 X Printing Extension (Xprint) clie ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii psmisc 22.3-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime iceweasel recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- :wq
