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July 13th, 2009 | 
Author: Since initially attempting to install Firefox 3.5 on Debian Lenny, I found the package I had made from compiled source was rather blouted, and the processes itself was rather tedious and harry and have been looking for other alternatives. First I tried Swiftfox, but was frustrated by trying to get flash to work. In the past I have used Swiftweasel, but a 3.5 current has not been released yet. Finaly I found glandium’s blog entry for installing Iceweasel 3.5 from experimental. I found I had to midify his instruction just slightly.
First is I added the testing and experimental repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list
#TESTING AND EXPERIMENTAL
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian testing main
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian experimental main
then I preformed these commands in terminal:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -t testing libstartup-notification0 libsqlite3-0 libnss3-1d libhunspell-1.2-0 libasound2 libxcb1
apt-get install iceweasel/experimental
Then I commented out the testing and experimental entries in /etc/apt/sources.list and performed an upgrade. To get java and flash to work I simply had to install them as usual.
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree sun-java6-plugin
Thus far I have found this the easiest way to get a Firefox 3.5 based build running on Debian Lenny. However, I am no longer running a strictly stable release of Debian, but with the other third party and backport repositories I use I don’t feel bad about this. For security issues Firefox/Iceweasel/Swiftfox is one of the few programs I actually desire to have the latest release and that it is the most used program on my desktop.
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One of the great benefits of running Firefox is the multitude of third party extensions available. In any way you can imagine to alter or enhance the features of Firefox there is possibly an extension for it, and if not you can make one (given you have the expertise.) Here is a list of the extensions I use regularly on Firefox and have found to be either fun or useful.
Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.
Ever wondered why you are still tracked though you tried everything to prevent it?
BetterPrivacy is a Super Cookie Safeguard which protects from usually not deletable LSO’s. It blocks longterm tracking on Google, YouTube Ebay and many other domains.
The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites.
This works also for audio and picture galleries.
View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar – without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.
The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!
FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions. In fact, it goes beyond just backing up — It will actually rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi files. Now you can easily synchronize your office and home browsers.
A customizable mouse gestures extension which enables you to execute various commands and user scripts with five types of gestures.
Displays a country flag depicting the location of the current website’s server and provides quick access to detailed location and webserver information.
Never lose anything you type into a web form again! Lazarus securely auto-saves all forms as you type, so after a crash, server timeout, or whatever, you can go back to the form, right click, “recover form”, and breath a sigh of relief.
The best security you can get in a web browser! Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks.
Read It Later allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest.
Import/Export extension preferences
Screengrab! saves webpages as images… It will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves webpages as images – either to a file, or to the clipboard.
ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog.
StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more.
Sets permanent opt-out cookies to stop behavioral advertising by 84 different advertising networks, including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, all members of the Network Advertising Initiative, and many other companies.
Xmarks is the #1 bookmarking add-on. Install it on all your computers to keep your bookmarks and (optionally) passwords backed up and synchronized. Xmarks also helps you uncover the best of the web based on what millions of people are bookmarking.
if using the defualt iceweasle build , just install xine-totem and video will embed within the browser. However, I use a browser package other then what Debian provides so I have to copy mozplugger from Ubuntu becouse the debian repo wants to install iceweasle with it.
sudo dpkg -i mozplugger_1.10.2-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
cd /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/plugins/
sudo ln -s /etc/lib/mozilla/mozplugger.so
alternatively I instal mplayer-nogui to use the mplayer engine with mozplugger from Ubuntu (does not have player controls).
[NOTE: in an incredible act of blunder I accidentally deleted the 64 bit package from my server. I no longer run a 64bit version of Linux; however, Swiftfox has a 64bit variation. Sadly, this is not the stock code for Firefox, but has some nice performance tweaks. I apologize for any inconvenience.
The new Firefox 3.5 stable dropped and I have spent the afternoon compiling it for my new Debian Lenny 64bit desktop. I fallowed the instructions from Mark Shroyer’s blog. In addition to his instruction I had to also install these packages;
sudo apt-get install libdbus-glib-1-dev libcairo2 libcairo2-dev libasound2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libnotify-dev.
I had some problems with not having access to bookmarks at first. I fixed this problem by running in terminal:
firefox -profilemanger
I removed the default user and created a new default user. Afterward I reloaded Firefox and it seemed to fix my problem. To get flash working I had to type in terminal:
tar -xvf libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
cp libflashplyaer.so /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/plugins/
I deleted the tarball and the plugin flile from my home directory and continued to install the java plugin.
sudo apt-get sun-java6-plugin
sudo ln /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/plugins/
I closed down any running instances of Firefox and then opened it again and Java and Flash worked. I have not had much time to explore what is new about Firefox yet, however I plan on tweaking Firefox to my liking soon, and will read reviews and release notes to see what new innovations I might like.
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