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Re: Iceweasel updates

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On Mon 02 Nov 2015 at 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. 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.

It takes a minute or two to download and change the user-agent string
with xul-ext-useragentswitcher.

We've had "lazy" and "stupid" for this behaviour of admins; could we add
"braindead"?

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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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