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and subject line iceweasel has been superseded by firefox-esr
has caused the Debian Bug report #511895,
regarding iceweasel: excessive delay choosing an application to open a
downloaded file
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Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.0.5-1
Severity: normal
Hi, when I use iceweasel normally, I have it set to prompt me for an
application to use when selecting .pdf files, with kpdf being an
available option.
Today I selected kpdf from within iceweasel as usual, read some of the
pdf document and closed kpdf.
I later wanted to read some more of the pdf file, so I opened the downloads
window, right clicked on a pdf file recently downloaded.
I then had the "launch application" window appear, and as kpdf did not
appear in the list of applications, I selected "Choose an Application".
The "Another Application..." window appeared but it took a long time to
process the contents of /usr/bin, when it should only be obtaining a
list of directory names and executable file names, not reading the
header of each file and processing it.
Could iceweasel implement a faster form of the "Another Application..."
window?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 2.30 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.6.0-3 generic font configuration library
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-2 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.11-4 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnspr4-0d 4.7.1-4 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii procps 1:3.2.7-11 /proc file system utilities
ii psmisc 22.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii xulrunner-1.9 1.9.0.5-1 XUL + XPCOM application runner
iceweasel recommends no packages.
Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii latex-xft-fonts 0.1-8 Xft-compatible versions of some La
ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
pn mozplugger <none> (no description available)
ii ttf-mathematica4.1 6 Installer of Mathematica TrueType
ii xfonts-mathml 2 Type1 Symbol font for MathML
ii xprint 2:1.4.2-10 X11 print system (binary)
pn xulrunner-1.9-gnome-s <none> (no description available)
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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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