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and subject line iceweasel has been superseded by firefox-esr
has caused the Debian Bug report #705173,
regarding iceweasel: -private command line flag is undocumented
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Package: iceweasel
Version: 20.0-1
Severity: normal
I typed "man iceweasel" expecting to find information on the command-line
parameters it takes, in particular to start up an instance with Private
Mode immediately. The manual page did not contain such information and
I had to resort to using a web search instead to find out. I suspect
that there is much more undocumented (the date at the bottom is November
2004), but I'm not aware of specific cases at the moment.
-- Package-specific info:
-- Extensions information
Name: Adblock Plus
Location:
/usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}
Package: xul-ext-adblock-plus
Status: enabled
Name: Debian buttons
Location:
/usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/{8fb11c5b-84eb-4da0-9128-292eacce2dcb}
Package: xul-ext-debianbuttons
Status: enabled
Name: Default theme
Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
Package: iceweasel
Status: enabled
Name: HTTPS-Everywhere
Location:
/usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/[email protected]
Package: xul-ext-https-everywhere
Status: enabled
Name: Omnibar
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled
-- Plugins information
Name: Gnome Shell Integration
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so
Package: gnome-shell
Status: enabled
Name: iTunes Application Detector
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so
Package: rhythmbox-plugins
Status: enabled
Name: Shockwave Flash
Location: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
Status: enabled
-- Addons package information
ii gnome-shell 3.4.2-7 amd64 graphical shell for the GNOME des
ii iceweasel 20.0-1 amd64 Web browser based on Firefox
ii rhythmbox-plug 2.97-2.1 amd64 plugins for rhythmbox music playe
ii xul-ext-adbloc 2.1-1 all Advertisement blocking extension
ii xul-ext-debian 1.9-1 all Buttons for querying Debian-relat
ii xul-ext-https- 2.0.5-1 all extension to force the use of HTT
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 4.3.2
ii fontconfig 2.9.0-7.1
ii libc6 2.13-38
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-2
ii libnspr4 2:4.9.2-1
ii libnspr4-0d 2:4.9.2-1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.13-1
ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-5
ii procps 1:3.3.3-3
ii xulrunner-20.0 20.0-1
iceweasel recommends no packages.
Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii fonts-stix [otf-stix] 1.1.0-1
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.10.1+dfsg-5
pn mozplugger <none>
Versions of packages xulrunner-20.0 depends on:
ii libasound2 1.0.25-4
ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-4
ii libc6 2.13-38
ii libcairo2 1.12.2-3
ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.8-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.100.2-1
ii libevent-2.0-5 2.0.19-stable-3
ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-7.1
ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1.1
ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-5
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-2
ii libhunspell-1.3-0 1.3.2-4
ii libmozjs20d 20.0-1
ii libnspr4 2:4.9.2-1
ii libnss3 2:3.14.3-1
ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1
ii libpixman-1-0 0.26.0-4
ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.13-1
ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-1
ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-5
ii libvpx1 1.1.0-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.1-2
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.7-1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.3-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13
Versions of packages xulrunner-20.0 suggests:
ii libcanberra0 0.28-6
ii libgnomeui-0 2.24.5-2
-- 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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