Comments on How to integrate the latest Firefox in Gnome 3 on Debian Jessie

That may sound like an odd threesome, but Jessie can run Firefox as a native Gnome 3 application. And why would you want to do that? Debian already comes with a perfectly good web browser --- Iceweasel, a rebranded version of Firefox. Why? Because of updates. Firefox updates much more often than Iceweasel. If you want the latest features and the latest bug fixes and security updates, you want Firefox.

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By: Pierre
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Much better : add anywhere in your sources list, for instance in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozilla.list

deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ jessie-backports iceweasel-release

 

And enjoy the power of apt …

 

See http://mozilla.debian.net/ if you want others options, and details on the installation

By: Pam
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The reason of Iceweasel existence is not release cycle, but copyright issues (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_rebranded_by_the_Debian_project).And as Pierre says: better use backports.