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This evening I decided to update a load of packages on my Debian box at home. I'm running the Testing distribution, for those who are interested. After updating, I noticed that my Firefox icon on my taskbar has changed to something resembling the 'greenguy' porn links site icon from about 8 years ago [1][2]. I investigate.
It turns out that Debian, after some kind of squabble [3] with Mozilla over branding and trademarks, have decided to replace Mozilla Firefox with GNU IceWeasel [4]. Which is more or less Firefox 2.0 with some code changes, and all the trademark stuff ripped out and replaced.
I am not fucking impressed with the alpha-quality of this crappy piece of software. I don't care if it's Firefox 2.0 or IceWeasel that sucks donkey dick, but it's fucking me right off.
EDIT: [the next morning] I've installed the 32-bit libs for AMD64 and then grabbed Firefox 2.0 from mozilla.com. It works just fine - in fact, it's a mild improvement on 1.5, a bit faster. So that answers that question. Now, back to last night's rant about Iceweasel:
So far:
1. it crashed within a few minutes of being upgraded
2. it then lost my session, despite having session handling enabled
3. it continues to not restore sessions, despite trying both the built-in and the tab mix plus session handling features
4. it displays blank or incorrect URLs in the address bar
5. it doesn't display anything in the status bar, for instance when you hover over links
6. it doesn't display the contents of the bookmarks toolbar
7. it doesn't add new bookmarks by dragging and dropping the icon from the address bar
8. it intermittently refuses to search from the search box
9. it screwed my HtmlValidator plugin
(although I suspect possibly the upstream provider is implicated in that one - the 64 bit package seems to be missing from his server at present)
10. typing / and then a search term doesn't seem to work any more, I have to do CTRL-F or Edit->Search
There may be more... I keep forgetting items, there are so many things that have gone wrong in the hour or two since I installed this piece of shit.
Plus the icon really is hideously childish. In fact, the entire piece of software seems to be of an amateur childish crap sort of quality. I want Firefox 1.5 back. I use my browser a lot, and this one is really seriously not fit for purpose.
11. I've just noticed, in the process of posting this entry, that the BACK AND FORWARD BUTTONS DON'T FUCKING WORK NOW. AAAAARGH. HOW THE FUCK DID THIS GET THROUGH QUALITY CONTROL???
[1] IceWeasel icon: http://new.metamathics.org/personal/denny/iceweasel.png
[2] Greenguy porn links icon: http://new.metamathics.org/personal/denny/greenguy.gif
[3] http://web.glandium.org/blog/?p=99
[4] http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
It turns out that Debian, after some kind of squabble [3] with Mozilla over branding and trademarks, have decided to replace Mozilla Firefox with GNU IceWeasel [4]. Which is more or less Firefox 2.0 with some code changes, and all the trademark stuff ripped out and replaced.
I am not fucking impressed with the alpha-quality of this crappy piece of software. I don't care if it's Firefox 2.0 or IceWeasel that sucks donkey dick, but it's fucking me right off.
EDIT: [the next morning] I've installed the 32-bit libs for AMD64 and then grabbed Firefox 2.0 from mozilla.com. It works just fine - in fact, it's a mild improvement on 1.5, a bit faster. So that answers that question. Now, back to last night's rant about Iceweasel:
So far:
1. it crashed within a few minutes of being upgraded
2. it then lost my session, despite having session handling enabled
3. it continues to not restore sessions, despite trying both the built-in and the tab mix plus session handling features
4. it displays blank or incorrect URLs in the address bar
5. it doesn't display anything in the status bar, for instance when you hover over links
6. it doesn't display the contents of the bookmarks toolbar
7. it doesn't add new bookmarks by dragging and dropping the icon from the address bar
8. it intermittently refuses to search from the search box
9. it screwed my HtmlValidator plugin
(although I suspect possibly the upstream provider is implicated in that one - the 64 bit package seems to be missing from his server at present)
10. typing / and then a search term doesn't seem to work any more, I have to do CTRL-F or Edit->Search
There may be more... I keep forgetting items, there are so many things that have gone wrong in the hour or two since I installed this piece of shit.
Plus the icon really is hideously childish. In fact, the entire piece of software seems to be of an amateur childish crap sort of quality. I want Firefox 1.5 back. I use my browser a lot, and this one is really seriously not fit for purpose.
11. I've just noticed, in the process of posting this entry, that the BACK AND FORWARD BUTTONS DON'T FUCKING WORK NOW. AAAAARGH. HOW THE FUCK DID THIS GET THROUGH QUALITY CONTROL???
[1] IceWeasel icon: http://new.metamathics.org/personal/denny/iceweasel.png
[2] Greenguy porn links icon: http://new.metamathics.org/personal/denny/greenguy.gif
[3] http://web.glandium.org/blog/?p=99
[4] http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
