Installation Instructions for the new Iceweasel and Icedove

[xeno74]

Hi,

There are new versions of Iceweasel and Icedove for Debian 7.2 and Debian Sid. Here are the installation instructions for the new Mozilla software products.

Debian 7.2/Sid:

Put the following line in /etc/apt/sources.list:

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deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian experimental main

Then execute the following commands:

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apt-get update

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apt-get install -t experimental iceweasel

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apt-get install -t experimental icedove

Have a lot of fun with the new Iceweasel and Icedove.

All the best,
Christian

[xeno74]

Screenshot of Iceweasel 25.0 and Icedove 24.0 on Debian Sid:

Iceweasel25-and-Icedove24-AmigaOneX1000.jpg

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[trevordick]

Thanks Christian, excellent work as usual.

Trevor

[xeno74]

If the pictures have wrong colors, then modify the configuration with about:config. Find the worth image.high_quality_downscaling.enabled and set it to false.

[xeno74]

If Iceweasel (Firefox) and Icedove (Thunderbird) have another Font in the menus and dialogue boxes than the desktop environment, then you have to create the file .fonts.conf in the home directory.

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
   <const>rgb</const>
  </edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
   <const>hintfull</const>
  </edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>

If this file exist, then the Firefox use the font configuration from the desktop environment.