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

DebianEtch and DebianSid provides only the free fork named ["Iceweasel"]. (The dummy package [http://packages.debian.org/firefox firefox] exists to ease transition to iceweasel).

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

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

    mv ~/.mozilla/firefox ~/old_firefox
    firefox &

See also

[http://technowizah.com/2006/11/debian-how-to-update-firefox.html Debian HOW-TO : Update Firefox] explains how to install the latest version of Firefox from Mozilla (the ugly way).