Mint Debian

[Jason Nicolaides]

Yes, and that was actually what I used to do when i used Firefox on Debian.
 However I found that the newer binaries from the Firefox website were
compiled against GTK libs that were newer than what was in stable.  Using
the repos you don't have to worry about that problem.

Cheers,
Jason

On 4 September 2011 15:52, Alex Volkov <avolkov-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> **
> Or you can just go to mozilla site, download firefox and extract tar.gz
> into your /opt/ directory.
>
>
> On 04/09/11 03:04 PM, Jason Nicolaides wrote:
>
> If you want to run more up to date versions of Firefox on Debian stable you
> could always add in the Debian Mozilla Team's repos.
>
>  http://mozilla.debian.net/
>
>  From the site you can select what you want, add the lines to your
> sources.list and then apt-get your way to a newer browser.  Keep in mind it
> will be branded Iceweasel since they are Debian packages but all the Firefox
> plugins should work.  Not 100% sure though as I use Chromium on testing...
> ;)
>
>  Cheers,
> Jason
>
> On 3 September 2011 13:33, Dave Germiquet <davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> What I find frustrating with debian and stable, is that they only have
>> Firefox Browser 3.5.14.
>>
>> With the new release policy of browsers (Releasing new ones all the
>> time), some web sites complain that you have too old of a version of a
>> browser ie. Google Plus.
>> .
>> I tried using Firefox on Debian Stable and it complained on the Google
>> Plus web site that it was too low of a version. IIcan see more sites
>> doing this. I wonder if debian will change there policy on Web
>> Browsers regarding what is stable or not to be more inlined with Web
>> Browser release strategy?
>>
>> Either way Chrome still worked :)
>>
>>
>>
>
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