Re: Iceweasel updates

From	Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Iceweasel updates
Date	2015-11-02 14:30 +0100
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On 2015-11-02 15:10:55 +0200, Alex Moonshine wrote:
> Not really a solution to OPs problem, but I've decided that it's
> much easier to just use a stand-alone precompiled Firefox downloaded
> from Mozilla website, which happily updates itself.

But some videos are not supported with official precompiled Firefox
versions due to obsolete gstreamer:

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=947287

> Debian's update policy for Iceweasel is far from ideal or
> comprehensive, using third-party repositories is bothersome,
> additionally, my bank's website simply refuses to work with any
> version of Iceweasel, apparently, because the userstring doesn't
> contain anything it looks for (Chrome/Firefox/IE/Safari), which is
> of course stupid in it's own right.

You may be using some broken extension. Debian's Iceweasel does have
something like "Firefox/38.0". It seems that Iceweasel/xxx is just
added at the end of the User-Agent string, i.e. this is something
standard + additional information.

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Iceweasel updates Jack Dangler <tdldev@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 13:30 +0100
  Re: Iceweasel updates Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2015-11-02 13:40 +0100
    Re: Iceweasel updates Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2015-11-02 13:50 +0100
      Re: Iceweasel updates Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-02 14:10 +0100
        Re: Iceweasel updates Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2015-11-02 14:20 +0100
          Re: Iceweasel updates Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-02 14:50 +0100
            Re: Iceweasel updates Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2015-11-02 15:00 +0100
              Re: Iceweasel updates Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-02 16:10 +0100
                Re: Iceweasel updates Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2015-11-02 23:10 +0100
                Re: Iceweasel updates Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-03 00:00 +0100
                Re: Iceweasel updates Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2015-11-03 03:00 +0100
                Re: Iceweasel updates Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-03 15:00 +0100
                Re: Iceweasel updates Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2015-11-04 15:00 +0100
                Re: Iceweasel updates Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-04 21:00 +0100
                Re: Iceweasel updates Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-11-03 09:30 +0100
                Re: Iceweasel updates Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-11-03 11:10 +0100
                Re: Iceweasel updates David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-11-03 15:30 +0100
  Re: Iceweasel updates Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2015-11-02 14:00 +0100
  Re: Iceweasel updates Alex Moonshine <moonshine@openmailbox.org> - 2015-11-02 14:20 +0100
    Re: Iceweasel updates Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2015-11-02 14:30 +0100
      Re: Iceweasel updates Alex Moonshine <moonshine@openmailbox.org> - 2015-11-02 15:20 +0100
        Re: Iceweasel updates Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-11-03 05:40 +0100
    Re: Iceweasel updates Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-02 14:40 +0100
  Re: Iceweasel updates Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-11-02 14:40 +0100
    Re: Iceweasel updates John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-11-02 15:10 +0100
      Re: Iceweasel updates Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> - 2015-11-02 15:30 +0100
        Re: Iceweasel updates Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2015-11-02 15:40 +0100
          Re: Iceweasel updates Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 16:20 +0100
        Re: Iceweasel updates Markus Schönhaber <debian-user@list-post.mks-mail.de> - 2015-11-02 15:40 +0100
        Re: Iceweasel updates Jack Dangler <tdldev@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 17:50 +0100
          Re: Iceweasel updates Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-02 19:00 +0100
  Re: Iceweasel updates Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-11-03 05:30 +0100

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