Firefox & Iceweasel

[അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ്.]

How can i install Firefox along with iceweasel in Debian wheezy?

~Akhilan

[Marc Shapiro]

Post by അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ്.
How can i install Firefox along with iceweasel in Debian wheezy?
~Akhilan

You can get the tarball from the Mozilla site. I move it to
/usr/local/lib and untar it from there. Note that since Iceweasel
pretends to be firefox, you need to explicitly use the firefox
executable from the tarball, or you will still get Iceweasel.

I use the following method:

1. Download and untar the tarball from Mozilla site, as above
2. Put a soft link in ~/bin named firefox and link to the directory
created in step 1.
3. Call the program with ~/bin/firefox/firefox

I find that from LXDE's Application Launchbar I need to use the fully
qualified path to the executable, even though ~/bin is in my path. You
may, or may not have to do this.

Marc

[അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ്.]

Anyway to run it as two sessions? ie. both simultaneously.

Post by അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ്.
How can i install Firefox along with iceweasel in Debian wheezy?
~Akhilan
You can get the tarball from the Mozilla site. I move it to

/usr/local/lib and untar it from there. Note that since Iceweasel pretends
to be firefox, you need to explicitly use the firefox executable from the
tarball, or you will still get Iceweasel.
1. Download and untar the tarball from Mozilla site, as above
2. Put a soft link in ~/bin named firefox and link to the directory
created in step 1.
3. Call the program with ~/bin/firefox/firefox
I find that from LXDE's Application Launchbar I need to use the fully
qualified path to the executable, even though ~/bin is in my path. You may,
or may not have to do this.
Marc
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[Kelly Clowers]

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:33 AM, അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ്.

Post by അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ്.
Anyway to run it as two sessions? ie. both simultaneously.

Please do not top post, it breaks the flow of the thread, and is
contrary to list conventions.

You can run both at the same time if you use separate profiles. Launch
it like so:
firefox -ProfileManager -No-Remote
and
iceweasel -ProfileManager -No-Remote

You can also do firefox -P "profile name" -no-remote to launch a
profile directly.

(-no-remote keeps the command from connecting to any already running sessions)

You will get the profile manager and you can make a second profile for
the other browser. If you want to have them match up in bookmarks and
so forth, you could use Firefox Sync.

Cheers,
Kelly Clowers

[Greg Madden]

Post by അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ്.
How can i install Firefox along with iceweasel in Debian wheezy?
~Akhilan

You can use both, they share the same directory in your home directory.
No problems here with that.

Firefox is a .tar.gz file so you have lots of options in installing it,
no need to be root for one.
--
Peace,

Greg

[Wayne Topa]

Post by അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ്.
How can i install Firefox along with iceweasel in Debian wheezy?
~Akhilan

search for a firewall - apt-cache search firewall

decide which one you want to install - apt-cache show < package name >

to install, as root, aptitude install <firewall you like>