On 06/16/2016 08:50 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: snip > There seems to be sort of a "quantum dis-entanglement" in this browser > transition (and I am reading between the lines, thinking your problem is > related to this) because in one swell foop they've disabled the help > menu's of quite a few programs that used iceweasel as their reader for > html docs, whether it was a file on your own machine, or a link to a > site on the web serving up the latest docs, which of course do NOT apply > to the 3 year old stable versions of the programs served up by the > repo's > > I solved it here the hard, no doubt totally unapproved way, I > copied /usr/lib/firefox to /usr/lib/iceweasel and then made softlinks in > the copied directory from iceweasel to firefox. And those programs that > serve up their help menu's with iceweasel are once again "fat, dumb, and > happy". > > Tain't right, it will not be updated, but in that event I'll just edit > the softlinks to actually reference the real thing & nuke the rest of > that directory as wasted disk space. > > I have no clue what they were thinking when they yanked iceweasel out by > the roots. I doubt they even considered that something else might be > dependent on iceweasel/iceweasel as a name. > > What should have happened was that iceweasel was updated to be an empty > package except for that /usr/lib/iceweasel directory and the softlinks > to firefox. > > Grrrrrouuuufffff in the general direction of TPTB. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett >
Thanks for your effort and your feedback but I don't think that is a good solution for me. Maybe I should try re-installing firefox... Thanks anyway Dalios
