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#1 2011-01-19 04:51:41
- corenominal
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Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
Does anyone have any objections/concerns to me uploading Iceweasel 4.0 Beta 9 packages into the Statler repository?
Iceweasel 4 is a potential replacement for Google Chrome, so it would be good to get some testing and feedback on it. 
Note: if I do this, anyone using the current 3.5 version of Iceweasel will have their browser upgraded.
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#2 2011-01-19 05:00:00
- cypher
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Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
I have been testing the beta version of Firefox4, If this is the same please add it. I've used #! for quite a while but never bothered to register until now. Thank you for the hard work! Statler rocks.
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#3 2011-01-19 05:16:19
- corenominal
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Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
I have been testing the beta version of Firefox4, If this is the same please add it.
I am not sure if it is the same version you have been testing? The Iceweasel packages I am proposing to include come from http://mozilla.debian.net/
P.S. Welcome to the forums!
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#4 2011-01-19 05:44:03
Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
No objections here,
I've heard good things about the upcoming version of Firefox/Iceweasel.
A few more people using/testing the beta could be helpful to the project too.
Cheers,
T
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#5 2011-01-19 08:12:50
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Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
I'm running FF4 b9 on another computer. Works fine, except for search (ctrl+f) feature. It seems to only find text that isn't hyperlinked.
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#6 2011-01-19 08:15:40
- corenominal
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Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
I'm running FF4 b9 on another computer. Works fine, except for search (ctrl+f) feature. It seems to only find text that isn't hyperlinked.
Seems to be working fine in Iceweasel.
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#7 2011-01-19 08:19:58
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Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
GuruX wrote:I'm running FF4 b9 on another computer. Works fine, except for search (ctrl+f) feature. It seems to only find text that isn't hyperlinked.
Seems to be working fine in Iceweasel.
Oh, great! It seems to be fixed in B9 of FF aswell. Woho!
+1 vote from me then!
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#8 2011-01-19 08:35:06
- nore
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Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
Iceweasel 4 is a potential replacement for Google Chrome...
Nothing in particular against Chrome (except perhaps /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list) but I'd use Iceweasel or Firefox as my primary browser anyway.
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#9 2011-01-19 09:58:52
- Sergio17771
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Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
It's planned that debian will rebrand iceweasel back to the firefox brand in mid 2011
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#10 2011-01-19 10:48:19
- rizzo
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Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
No objections here
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#11 2011-01-19 10:49:51
- rizzo
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Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
It's planned that debian will rebrand iceweasel back to the firefox brand in mid 2011
Could we get a link to confirm that plan?
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#12 2011-01-19 14:35:54
- vicshrike
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Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
no objection, please do!!!!!
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#13 2011-01-19 14:37:16
- snowpine
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Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
I think it is a good idea looking towards the future. I don't really want to still be using 3.5 in 2 years' time when Squeeze is mature.
/hugged
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#14 2011-01-19 14:40:22
- anonymous
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Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
I have no objections to Iceweasel however I generally prefer not using alpha/beta/rc programs. I'd rather wait for it to go final.
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#16 2011-01-19 15:00:42
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Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
no objections whatsoever...been using iceweasel 4b from http://glandium.org/blog/ and so far i can't seem to think of any crash/problem.
however, as you might be aware, since 4.0-b8 there's a dependencies problem that made me go and get some packages from experimental [see dependencies for package xulrunner2.0]...apart from that all is good!
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#17 2011-01-19 15:07:30
- cxexa
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Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
Sounds like a great idea to me.
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#18 2011-01-19 15:48:38
- corenominal
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Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
Thank you for all the responses. If there are still no objections by tomorrow morning, I will upload the packages.
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#19 2011-01-19 16:03:20
- Unia
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Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
Objection! 
Nah, I would like to test it out and see if it will outperform Google Chrome. Give it a shot!
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#20 2011-01-19 16:04:56
- Anaconda
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Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
+1 vote here.
Looks like most CrunchBang users are not overly conservative. It's easy enough to have a spare browser on board if any temporary glitches happen anyway.
"Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time." Linus Torvalds
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#21 2011-01-19 16:37:06
- Morley
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Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
+1 vote here.
Looks like most CrunchBang users are not overly conservative. It's easy enough to have a spare browser on board if any temporary glitches happen anyway.
I agree about the extra browsers. Honestly, I prefer Chrome, and will most likely stick with that. That having been said, I have no objections to including the Iceweasel 4.0 packages. I am playing around with Firefox 4 beta and it seems pretty slick. I will, as usual, tweak what applications/browsers I use as the situation calls for.
I willfully participate in a campaign of misinformation!
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#22 2011-01-19 17:13:38
- rabbitofdeath
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Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
+1 I think its a great idea
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#23 2011-01-19 17:14:55
- root
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Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
[...]I will upload the packages.
Go for it. 
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#24 2011-01-19 17:20:31
Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
I wonder if it would be possible/desirable to give the iceweasel 4 package a different name, eg iceweasel4? That way it might be able to coexist with iceweasel 3.5 in case someone needed the stable version as well. Apart from possible bugs, there are still many extensions which haven't yet been upgraded to work with iceweasel/firefox 4.
That said, I'm looking forward to Firefox 4 and happy to try iceweasel 4 beta on my "non production" laptop.
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#25 2011-01-19 17:23:03
- rikhardfloss
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Re: Objections to Iceweasel 4 packages?
no objections here Corenominal, in fact i've been testing FF4.09pre as i said before, it's not my default browser right now (i use GNUIcecat 3.6.13) because there are a lot of extensions i need that still don't work with the new version.
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