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In DebianWoody and DebianSarge, the name of the package containing Firefox is [http://packages.debian.org/firefox firefox] In DebianWoody and DebianSarge, the name of the package containing Firefox is [http://packages.debian.org/mozilla-firefox mozilla-firefox]

Becoming the greatest browser ever very quickly. Uses the gecko rendering engine from Mozilla but puts it in a light weight and fast new interface.

In DebianWoody and DebianSarge, the name of the package containing Firefox is [http://packages.debian.org/mozilla-firefox mozilla-firefox]

In DebianEtch and DebianSid the name of the package is [http://packages.debian.org/firefox firefox].

Invoke it using one of this ways:

 /usr/bin/firefox

 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox 

or simply

 firefox 

For ["Gnome"] launcher, use

 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox "%s"

to open a concrete page.

Plugin

The plugin directory is

  •  /usr/lib/firefox/plugins

for more info on Firefox plugins, refer to the plugins section of the ["Mozilla"] page.

It has ["Javascript"] enabled by default.

Troubleshooting

  1. My firefox is consistently crashing on a website
  2. First run firefox without loading any extensions and see if the problem persists. This can be done by using the -safe-mode option

    firefox -safe-mode
  • If the problem goes away, then it means that one of the installed extensions is the root cause of the problem. If not then read on!
  • Create a new user and try to reproduce the problem on the new user's account.
  • If there is no problem with firefox on new user's account, chances are that your ~/.mozilla/firefox/ directory is corrupt.
  • In order to see if the ~/.mozilla/firefox is infact corrupt or not, move it to some other directory and start firefox again

    mv ~/.mozilla/firefox ~/old_firefox
    firefox &
  • If the problem goes away, well and good. Otherwise you can ask for help on debian-user mailing list by providing all the relevant information like "the way to reproduce the crash", "the version of firefox you are using", and "the distribution you are using" etc., Finally, if you are confident that it is a bug in the firefox package please consider filing a bug against firefox package.

See also: ["Mozilla"].

See also: ["FlashPlayer"].