I tried IceCat, but the code is horribly behind the actual Firefox releases. Firefox is at 6.02 right now and IceCat is stuck at 5. This is a serious problem especially on the Firefox rapid release cycle and important security issues only get patched in new releases. The DigiNotar SSL certificate vulnerability comes to mind.

I took a look at http://packages.trisquel.info/search?keywords=firefox and noticed that Firefox "is" part of the Trisquel packages (even if not updated) so I simply did a sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable for releases pre-Dagda.

I noticed that Dagda, based off of 11.04, has "abrowser" which is Firefox anyways just without the branding. Canonical has been keeping up to date with Firefox as of 11.04 (Dagda) and onwards so you either have to rely on the Trisquel team keeping "abrowser" up to date or simply add the official natty repositories in your sources.list.

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