Iceweasel is a web browser for CrunchBang, basically Mozilla Firefox repackaged for Debian with some minor changes. It is available in the menu under 'Network' - 'Web Browser'. It can be attached to the keybinding W-w (Windows/superkey-w). Iceweasel in CrunchBang also has out of the box support for flash video.
Click on the address bar in your mozilla browser and type about:config hit Enter, Accept the warning, as it doesn't really matter anyway, you have a brand new profile to play with, something goes wrong delete it, create another and start again … There's a search bar at the top of the about:config settings and we are going to use it heartily now.
Type the following into that search bar, when they come up, set them as follows, or however ya happen to find works best for you, but these are about:config tweaks I've long used and gotten good result with.
network.http ( and all these will come up) Right click on each of them and select toggle so they are set to true.
NOTE: Anything over 10 and you're being extremely rude to other netizens and server admins. They may block/ban you or otherwise have it limited so you can't get more connections anyway. But anything over 10 is as mentioned RUDE and INCONSIDERATE.
Addons can be installed either from the firefox website or through the top level menu under Tools –> Addons, and clicking on the Get addons tab.
The website for the extensions can be found here.
Some recommended ones are:
Some more suggestions for extensions can be found in these two forum threads. They date back to 2009 but are generally still valid:
Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons
which are your essential firefox add-ons?
sudo geany /etc/apt/sources.list
You need to add the following entry
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-release
You can install it with the following commands:
sudo apt-get update &&
sudo apt-get install -t squeeze-backports iceweasel
sudo geany /etc/apt/sources.list
You need to add the following entry
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-beta
You can install it with the following commands:
sudo apt-get update &&
sudo apt-get install -t squeeze-backports iceweasel
sudo geany /etc/apt/sources.list
You need to add the following entry
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-aurora
You can install it with the following commands:
sudo apt-get update &&
sudo apt-get install -t squeeze-backports iceweasel
Kind reminder: If you use the Backports (bpo) release of #!Statler, you don't need to add “deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main” to /etc/apt/sources.list - it's already included. To be sure, check the content of the sources.list file.
sudo geany /etc/apt/sources.list
You need to add the following entry
deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-release
You can install it with the following commands:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -t squeeze-backports iceweasel
sudo geany /etc/apt/sources.list
You need to add the following entry
deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-beta
You can install it with the following commands:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -t squeeze-backports iceweasel
sudo geany /etc/apt/sources.list
You need to add the following entry
deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-aurora
You can install it with the following commands:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -t squeeze-backports iceweasel
sudo geany /etc/apt/sources.list
You need to add the following entry
deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ experimental iceweasel-release
You can install it with the following commands:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -t experimental iceweasel
sudo geany /etc/apt/sources.list
You need to add the following entry
deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ experimental iceweasel-beta
You can install it with the following commands:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -t experimental iceweasel
sudo geany /etc/apt/sources.list
You need to add the following entry
deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ experimental iceweasel-aurora
You can install it with the following commands:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -t experimental iceweasel
The mozilla.debian.net archive is signed, so APT may complain until you add the archive key to your APT keyring.
You can do so by installing the pkg-mozilla-archive-keyring package. Once installed, you can check the key with the following command (requires the debian-keyring package to be installed):
gpg –check-sigs –fingerprint –keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/pkg-mozilla-archive-keyring.gpg –keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg pkg-mozilla-maintainers
//pub 4096R/06C4AE2A 2010-11-20 [expires: 2012-11-14]
Key fingerprint = 85F0 6FBC 75E0 67C3 F305 C3C9 85A3 D265 06C4 AE2A
uid Debian Mozilla team APT archive <pkg-mozilla-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
sig!3 06C4AE2A 2010-11-20 Debian Mozilla team APT archive <pkg-mozilla-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
sig! 54FD2A58 2010-11-20 Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
1 signature not checked due to a missing key//
The latter message about signature not being checked is expected, as the archive key is signed by two keys, but only one being in the Debian keyring at a given moment: 54FD2A58 is an old key that is going to be deprecated and replaced with A6AA8C72. You can thus also expect the last signature validation to differ depending on the Debian keyring version you use.