On Friday 17 June 2016 16:29:51 Dalios wrote: > 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...
Have you tried upgrading again? There may be some new updates. And have you done full-upgrade? (dist-upgrade in apt-get)? To get rid of old stuff that will now get in the way. Lisi
