iceweasel and gmail
On logging into gmail this morning on iceweasel i got the following message .. You are using an old version of Firefox that Gmail no longer supports. Some features may not work correctly. are there any plans for upgrading iceweasel to get round this problem, or should i install a more updated firefox? Take care Sharon. -- A taste of linux http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html efever http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ Debian 6, KDE 4.4.5, LibreOffice 3.3.2 Registered Linux user 334501 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAM9u--dJB7pqWiTEkwyiocG=+_gw82ixgtux1k6uhmtwkw0...@mail.gmail.com
Re: iceweasel and gmail
2011/9/9 Sharon Kimble skimbl...@gmail.com On logging into gmail this morning on iceweasel i got the following message .. You are using an old version of Firefox that Gmail no longer supports. Some features may not work correctly. are there any plans for upgrading iceweasel to get round this problem, or should i install a more updated firefox? http://mozilla.debian.net/ maybe? -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my
Re: iceweasel and gmail
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 07:09:19 +0100 Sharon Kimble skimbl...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Sharon, message .. You are using an old version of Firefox that Gmail no longer supports. Some features may not work correctly. are there any plans for upgrading iceweasel to get round this problem, or should Ignore it, everything works fine. It's a standard message used so that google (and other companies) don't have to check their software against too many browser variants. -- Regards _ / ) The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent Well I don't want you to think I'm being obscene Fish - The Damned signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: iceweasel and gmail
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:09:19 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: On logging into gmail this morning on iceweasel i got the following message .. You are using an old version of Firefox that Gmail no longer supports. Some features may not work correctly. are there any plans for upgrading iceweasel to get round this problem, or should i install a more updated firefox? This looks like Google's fault. What version of Iceweasel are you running? It should be just fine. http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6557 Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.09.09.11.58...@gmail.com
Re: iceweasel and gmail
On 9 September 2011 21:58, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:09:19 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: On logging into gmail this morning on iceweasel i got the following message .. You are using an old version of Firefox that Gmail no longer supports. Some features may not work correctly. are there any plans for upgrading iceweasel to get round this problem, or should i install a more updated firefox? This looks like Google's fault. What version of Iceweasel are you running? It should be just fine. http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6557 Google reckon that all features are available for Firefox 3.6+ but Squeeze default is Firefox (aka Iceweasel) 3.5.16. gmail obviously supports 3.5.16 (I'm using it here) but maybe not all features are available. If you don't want them, then this is not a worry. Question is: how can we upgrade to Iceweasel 3.6+ if we want to? Cheers, Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail: rob1...@gmail.com Telephone (ANU): +61 2 6125 3169 Mobile (in VN): +84 948 243 538 Mobile (in OZ): +61 417 293 603 - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CABMs7vjtM2NBwM2VCejaXn9B7FPuBVeG=kathdo1rbnpzd3...@mail.gmail.com
Re: iceweasel and gmail
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 10:21:20PM +1000, Rob Hurle wrote: Question is: how can we upgrade to Iceweasel 3.6+ if we want to? You'll find detailed instructions here¹. ¹http://mozilla.debian.net/ -- Huella de clave primaria: AD8F BDC0 5A2C FD5F A179 60E7 F79B AB04 5299 EC56 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: iceweasel and gmail
2011/9/9 Rob Hurle rob1...@gmail.com: On 9 September 2011 21:58, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Question is: how can we upgrade to Iceweasel 3.6+ if we want to? I just download the .tar.gz file in the mozilla.com. And release the package under my home dir, then add a alias ... statement in the .bashrc. Now firefox can auto update to the last version. Sometime i guess why linux distributions need to maintain a large number applications like firefox,libreoffice,but not let users to download the package from the corresponding net and install them.One reason I think it makes sense is that the package may not has the needed package format like .deb or .rpm, and there may be some security and stability problem. Cheers, Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail: rob1...@gmail.com Telephone (ANU): +61 2 6125 3169 Mobile (in VN): +84 948 243 538 Mobile (in OZ): +61 417 293 603 - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cabms7vjtm2nbwm2vcejaxn9b7fpubvegkathdo1rbnpzd3...@mail.gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cah3inr2jg5rtekjkorf3onmn+7ydw41fblp5aaf0y76hqtj...@mail.gmail.com
Re: iceweasel and gmail
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:21:20 +1000, Rob Hurle wrote: On 9 September 2011 21:58, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:09:19 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: On logging into gmail this morning on iceweasel i got the following message .. You are using an old version of Firefox that Gmail no longer supports. Some features may not work correctly. are there any plans for upgrading iceweasel to get round this problem, or should i install a more updated firefox? This looks like Google's fault. What version of Iceweasel are you running? It should be just fine. http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6557 Google reckon that all features are available for Firefox 3.6+ but Squeeze default is Firefox (aka Iceweasel) 3.5.16. gmail obviously supports 3.5.16 (I'm using it here) but maybe not all features are available. First you will have to identify what of such feature you can't access or make use of, I mean, I'm not aware of any in particular :-) If you don't want them, then this is not a worry. Question is: how can we upgrade to Iceweasel 3.6+ if we want to? Questions is... do you really want to upgrade to 3.6+? If yes, there are many options: 1/ Go to mozilla.debian.net and follow the instructions 2/ Go to www.mozilla.org and download the latest version of the browser I, that run lenny, had to go for the second option. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.09.09.13.55...@gmail.com
Re: iceweasel and gmail
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 09:34:09PM +0800, yuanwei xu wrote: 2011/9/9 Rob Hurle rob1...@gmail.com: On 9 September 2011 21:58, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Question is: how can we upgrade to Iceweasel 3.6+ if we want to? I just download the .tar.gz file in the mozilla.com. And release the package under my home dir, then add a alias ... statement in the .bashrc. Now firefox can auto update to the last version. Sometime i guess why linux distributions need to maintain a large number applications like firefox,libreoffice,but not let users to download the package from the corresponding net and install them.One reason I think it makes sense is that the package may not has the needed package format like .deb or .rpm, and there may be some security and stability problem. Yes. This is exactly the issue. Linux distributions basically do a number of things for you, so that you don't have to do them yourself: * Fetch the upstream source code * Patch any known security bugs which the upstream haven't yet * Make sure the source builds with the versions of the libraries in the distribution * Compile the source (which almost always requires different software to actually running it) * Pack the result into a convenient container for redistribution Incidentally, Mozilla object to Debian's policy of doing the second item there, judging it to be polluting the Mozilla brand. That is why Debian has Iceweasel. However, remember that this is the beauty of open source software. If you want to compile and install from upstream, you are always welcome to do so yourself. There is even software such as checkinstall to make your life easier in such circumstances by integrating third-party builds into the package manager. -- Darac Marjal signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: iceweasel and gmail
On Friday 09 September 2011 08:53:21 Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 07:09:19 +0100 Sharon Kimble skimbl...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Sharon, message .. You are using an old version of Firefox that Gmail no longer supports. Some features may not work correctly. are there any plans for upgrading iceweasel to get round this problem, or should Ignore it, everything works fine. It's a standard message used so that google (and other companies) don't have to check their software against too many browser variants. Using Lenny, I have actually had problems. Konqueror has alwasys been problematic. Iceweasel has always been fine, until recently (after I had installed Google Chrome0. Iceweasel is now problemtic, so I groan and use Google Chrome for Gmail, but use it less and less for oither thgings as dsilike has grown from using it - I actually liked it better than Iceweasel at first - it opens a lot faster - but have become more and more disillusioned with it and now use it for the BBC and GMail only. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201109092013.42877.lisi.re...@gmail.com
