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Iceweasel impressionsSince I use Firefox as my browser, I was a bit concerned that the transition to Iceweasel would be smooth. I held off a week or so before upgrading my Etch boxes just for that reason. Despite a few people reporting problems (examples), my conversions went flawlessly and I'm now happily browsing on my main desktop boxes. About the only thing I don't like about Iceweasel is the change of the "kill tab" button from having one on the far right to having one on the right of each tab. I found that annoying. But considering that little whine is my biggest complaint, the folks who put Iceweasel together did a helluva job. Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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Iceweasel
I really like it. The new kill tabs are better in my opinion because it keeps me from closing the wrong tab. It has been crashing when confronted with certain video formats and after installing java, but that may be my fault and I'm playing with it before submitting any bug reports.
I have a problem with it.
While Iceweasel does work ok now, it's still not firefox.
It's a fork.
eventually the gap between the fork and the original will widen enough to make them entirely different browsers, and possibly incompatible. Perhaps Debian Browser would be a more suitable name.
I took iceweasel off and manually installed firefox. It's the software I want on my machine. I would like to see an option to install firefox in Debian out of the non-free branch. IANAL, so I don't know what the ramifications of repackaging are. My gentoo box has the option of calling for firefox or their local variant of firefox through portage, but that's handled by wrapper script. Legal wrangling is neatly sidestepped, like with the Debian package java-package.
Perhaps something similar could be done in Debian via wrapper scripts? Hmm. maybe it's time to cook some code.
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Jai yen
Not too bad
I've used iceweasel since its Phoenix days (0.8 IIRC) and I've always been happy with it.
I'm having a few problems now --- I get crashes reasonably frequently now, especially when choosing where to save a downloaded file. With 1.5/firefox I could keep the browser running for a couple of weeks at a time, before one of the famous memory bugs would bite.
Still, I run quite a few extensions which I'd be lost without. I am a little concerned with the bloat that's creeping in --- why a browser has to have a feed aggregator out of the box beats me (although coupled with the sage extension --- aptable from Debian --- monitoring feeds couldn't be easier.)
It would be nice if a few of the other free browsers would mature a little more. The only other one I use with any frequency now is links, which is, shall we say, missing some fairly standard features!
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