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and subject line iceweasel has been superseded by firefox-esr
has caused the Debian Bug report #630819,
regarding Iceweasel fails to open a file URI when the link has been obtained
from a remote server.
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630819: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=630819
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Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.5.16-7
Severity: minor
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After /etc/iceweasel/pref/iceweasel.js is adjusted according to instructions
in http://kb.mozillazine.org/Security_Policies, a file URI still fails to open
when the link has been obtained from a remote Web server. Of course, there is
no problem using a local link to open a local file. Add-on
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/281 confers the ability to open the
file
URI. Iceweasel appears to be ignoring the adjustments in /etc/...iceweasel.js.
At least one other bug involves /etc/iceweasel/pref/iceweasel.js; #425961.
Regards, ... Peter E.
-- Package-specific info:
-- Extensions information
Name: Default
Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
Package: iceweasel
Status: enabled
Name: LocalLink
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{15756614-ffb8-498b-b961-bce537ea94fe}
Status: enabled
-- Plugins information
Name: Shockwave Flash
Location: /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so
Package: flashplayer-mozilla
Status: enabled
-- Addons package information
ii flashplayer-mo 2:10.3.181.26- Macromedia Flash Player.
ii iceweasel 3.5.16-7 Web browser based on Firefox
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (900, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 3.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.6-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii procps 1:3.2.8-9 /proc file system utilities
ii xulrunner-1.9.1 1.9.1.16-7 XUL + XPCOM application runner
iceweasel recommends no packages.
Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.8.3+dfsg-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
pn mozplugger <none> (no description available)
pn ttf-lyx | latex-xft-fonts <none> (no description available)
pn ttf-mathematica4.1 <none> (no description available)
pn xfonts-mathml <none> (no description available)
pn xprint <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages xulrunner-1.9.1 depends on:
ii libasound2 1.0.23-2.1 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.8.10-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhunspell-1.2-0 1.2.11-1 spell checker and morphological an
ii libjpeg62 6b1-1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libmozjs2d 1.9.1.16-7 The Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScrip
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.6-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-1d 3.12.8-1+squeeze1 Network Security Service libraries
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1+squeeze2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libreadline6 6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries
ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.3-1 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libstartup-notificatio 0.10-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/iceweasel/pref/iceweasel.js changed:
// This is the Debian specific preferences file for Iceweasel
// You can make any change in here, it is the purpose of this file.
// You can, with this file and all files present in the
// /etc/iceweasel/pref directory, override any preference that is
// present in /usr/lib/iceweasel/defaults/preferences directory.
// While your changes will be kept on upgrade if you modify files in
// /etc/iceweasel/pref, please note that they won't be kept if you
// do make your changes in /usr/lib/iceweasel/defaults/preferences.
//
// Note that lockPref is allowed in these preferences files if you
// don't want users to be able to override some preferences.
pref("extensions.update.enabled", true);
// Use LANG environment variable to choose locale
pref("intl.locale.matchOS", true);
// Disable default browser checking.
pref("browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser", false);
// Allow my file URI to be opened.
user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "localfilelinks");
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");
// The link is obtained from http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/#Links.
// The target file on the localhost, 142.103.107.137.
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "http://members.shaw.ca/";
"file://142.103.107.137/" );
-- no debconf information
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Personal pages http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/ .
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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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