iceweasel install nevers installs the release version !

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Sat Aug 13 06:44:59 UTC 2011


On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 07:11:43PM +0200, Gaël wrote:
> hello !
> 
> i'm trying to install iceweasel release (iceweasel 5 i presume)
> 
> so i do add those three lines to my sources.list :
> 
> # iceweasel
> deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main
> deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-release
> 
> and then apt-get update and apt-get install -t squeeze-backports iceweasel

Did that succeed ?

> and i got iceweasel : Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16)
> Gecko/20110701 Iceweasel/3.5.16 (like Firefox/3.5.16)

Go in about:config, and filter on "useragent". Maybe that string is set
as an override.

The best place to check the version you are using, though, is not the
user agent string, but the about dialog.

Mike



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