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and subject line iceweasel has been superseded by firefox-esr
has caused the Debian Bug report #848270,
regarding iceweasel: When iceweasel restarts it forgets the active profile
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Package: iceweasel
Version: 45.5.0esr-1
Severity: normal
If iceweasel is restarted due to e.g. an update, a setting change that
requires a restart, or installation of a new plugin, it doesn't start
the correct profile. That is, an iceweasel window using my slack
profile, when it restarts, may start a calendar profile or a default
profile, etc.
I have several profiles which I use to separate different kinds of
tasks. I've not yet figured out the details of which profile ends up
being selected, but I have yet to see iceweasel restart the _correct_
profile.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to es_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii firefox-esr 45.0.1esr-1
iceweasel recommends no packages.
iceweasel suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 115.12.0esr-1+rm
src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version
45.0esr-1 in March 2016. Transitional packages to ease upgrades were
provided in the wheezy, jessie, stretch and buster releases. The
transitional packages have been removed finally before the bullseye
release in August 2021.
After regular security support for buster ended in August 2022 and LTS
support ended in June 2024, I'm closing the remaining bug reports now.
Andreas
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