On 2015-03-24, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> wrote: > > --eDB11BtaWSyaBkpc > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 02:47:40AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 12:59:09PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >=20 >> > Someone suggested it, and I was a sucker. :) Both have now been excise= > d,=20 >> > no effect that I can hear. But iceweasal is frozen again, the *&%$ bac= > k=20 >> > button does NOT work on cbsnews.com. Everyone but bbcnews is playing= >=20 >> > with your controls, and cbs seems to be the worst offender. When it=20 >> > refuses to go back, sometimes closing the tab works, occasionally the= >=20 >> > close button on the browser works, but I keep a root exec'd copy of hto= > p=20 >> > running just so I can have the last word. And I have to use it about= >=20 >> > 25% of the time to exit iceweasal. =20 >>=20 >> Yep, Iceweasel is a *real* pig!=20 >>=20 >> > But that problem is a separate=20 >> > thread Request Entity too Large. No clue it its related, but get=20 >> > firefox will get a visit soon if I can't get this under control. >>=20 >> Ummm, Iceweasel *IS* Firefox, just with the advertising removed. :) > > Actually, there's [quite a bit more][1] to it than that. The primary > motivation behind Iceweasel is actually security patches, rather than > privacy/freedom concerns. Due to the release schedule of Debian, the > plan was to freeze on one version of Firefox, and backport security > fixes to that during the life of Stable (just like every other package > works). However, Mozilla decreed that such a modification would create a > derivative version of Firefox and that this was not allowed. > > So, the options left available to the Debian Developers were to freeze Fire= > fox > into stable and NOT fix security problems (which is clearly not a nice > thing to do to users), to provide regular updates of Firefox to stable > users (which goes against the philosophy of Stable), or to comply with > Mozilla's wishes to de-brand the patched Firefox. Thus IceWeasel was > born. > > > > [1]: https://sources.debian.net/src/iceweasel/31.5.3esr-1/debian/patches/ >
Debian wheezy follows the esr release cycle (as will jessie). So the security updates are already backported by Mozilla. For that reason, iceweasel esr isn't strictly 'stable' in the debian sense of the word: it has gone through many jumps in major version number since the release of wheezy. -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnmh3fmm.ff8.liam.p.otoole@dipsy.tubbynet
