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Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox | Ars Technica

Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox

Memo details layoffs, "strategic corrections," and a desire for "trustworthy" AI.

is IceWeasel still a thing

[theexodvs]

The renaming of all Spider-Man titles to Scarlet Spider during the clone saga has pretty much the same energy as Debian's Ice Weasel shenanigans.

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Firefox es ahora el navegador por defecto en Xanadu GNU/Linux Desde hace unos días las personas que tengan instalado Xanadu GNU/Linux en sus ordenadores habrán visto que a la hora de actualizar, …

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Up-to-date Firefox on Debian Live

The computers where I install Debian Live are used to access a relatively limited set of websites. The default browser on the builds is Iceweasel, Debian’s rebranding of Firefox which came to be circa 2004-2006 due to esoteric legal reasons. The version number is 38, which is an ESR: a long-term support version scheduled by Mozilla to receive security updates for a extended period of time.

Now the problem: one of the websites we use recently started complaining that our browser was too old. Well, it actually is old. Firefox/Iceweasel 38 was first released in May 2015, and a new ESR cycle (version 45) has started since then. Websites maintainers tend to recognise this, and this website appears to require the latest ESR. Everything appears to work correctly, but it does show a warning and I am concerned it could actually start breaking at any moment.

So what’s a Debian Live admin to do? I found that Debian do publish up-to-date browser packages (or as up-to-date as the latest ESR anyway) in their repositories. However, it’s not in the obvious, default repositories but in the ones for security updates, which need to be added to my sources.list. These are normally active by default in new installs of Debian, but for some reason they are not on Debian Live builds.

But also to my surprise, while looking for a solution I found that the whole Iceweasel/Firefox drama has finally come to an end. Things have changed over the years, and finally Mozilla has changed its licensing policies, getting Debian to finally agree to bundle Firefox, actually branded as Firefox, in its distribution. These new packages are already available, also on the repositories for security updates.

This means that I can have Firefox instead of Iceweasel, and it can be version 45, which fits my requirements.

To have my Debian Live ISOs bundle this updated Firefox, I have to add the source line at a file in config/archives/. This is a valid example:

1# config/archives/security.list.chroot 2deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main

If you were including Iceweasel in your builds, that should get you version 45. Now, if you want Firefox you can reference it (as firefox-esr) instead in your package lists. For instance:

1# config/package-lists/firefox.list.chroot 2firefox-esr

The rest is just running a build and installing the result in your computers.

[gslin]

Mozilla 的人提出討論，把 Debian 上的 Iceweasel 改名回 Firefox

Mozilla 的人提出討論，把 Debian 上的 Iceweasel 改名回 Firefox

2006 年時因為 Mozilla 的人認為 Debian 改了太多東西 (以及其他原因)，不應該使用 Mozilla Firefox 這個商標，要求 Debian 改名 (可以參考維基百科上的「Mozilla software rebranded by Debian」條目)。 而在九年後，最近 Mozilla 的人在 Debian 上開了一個 bug report，討論是否還需要維持 Iceweasel 這個名字：「#815006 – Renaming Iceweasel to Firefox」。 Debian 這邊的人也提出了很多不一樣的意見 (尤其是對 Mozilla 的商標使用規範)，目前還在爭論…

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Utilizar perfiles para ejecutar múltiples instancias de Firefox

Utilizar perfiles para ejecutar múltiples instancias de Firefox

Supongamos que tenemos instalado en nuestro computador Firefox, Iceweasel y Firefox Developer Edition, ahora si queremos abrir cualquiera de estos navegadores de forma simultanea nos dará un error indicando que “Firefox ya se esta ejecutando pero no responde”. Para solucionar esto vamos a ejecutar cada navegador con un perfil diferente. (more…)

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iceweasel을 iceweasel이라 부르지 못하고...

한메일Express라는 것에 당첨되었다...라고 하는 메일이 한메일에 쌓였길래, 보려고 했더니 왠일인지 똑같다. 뭔가 이상해서 환경설정에서 Express 사용여부를 설정하면서 자세히 관찰해 보니까 뭔가 다른 페이지를 들어가려고 하다가 나가는 현상이 보였다. 그 순간에 나왔다 사라지는 한마디, "IE, Firefox 1.5, ... 이상에서만 사용할 수 있습니다." "지금 iceweasel 무시하나요?"를 머리속에 대뇌이면서 about:config 에서 user-agent 값을 firefox로 고쳐버렸다. 그러니까 무리 없이 한메일Express로 잘 전환되었다. 그런데 머리 속을 스치고 지나가는 생각. "지금까지 티스토리의 에디터가 epiphany에서만 동작하고 iceweasel에서 동작하지 않은 원인이 설마 이것일까?" 지체없이 티스토리로 로그인, 에디터를 써 본 결과 맞았다. 얄밉게 잘 동작하는 에디터...  (epiphany에서도 찾아보니까 예전에 user-agent를 고친 설정이 남아 있었다.) 한메일은 그렇다 쳐도, 태터툴즈 에디터가 user-agent를 보고 다르게 동작할 줄은 꿈에도 몰랐다. PS. "어쩔 수가 없이 이렇게 만들었다"라고 하기엔 iceweasel이라는 user-agent로 잘 동작한 웹용 에디터들이 너무 많다.

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az élet apró örömei...

Tegnap panaszkodtam, hogy elavult a böngészőm, erre most jött egy halom frissítés a Wheezy-re, benne egy újabb Iceweasel, és ezzel már végre kompatibilis az xkit plugin :-)