is there one good browser for Debian 7 next to Iceweasel 31? Tried to compile Firefox 45 sometime ago but lost the thread ... really would like continue using it (Debian 7) for some time, but Iceweasel 31 is becoming limiting factor. Upgrading to Jessie or higher is no option for me at the moment, as i tried this in the past and never had good, consistent results.
You can get Arcticfox working in Wheezy!
1) Make a copy of your sources.list, and change all instances from wheezy to jessie.
2) Copy that list as root into the directory /etc/apt/sources.list.d and then sudo apt-get update (DON'T upgrade!).
3) You need gcc-4.8 and g++-4.8 - it's easier to see what's going on if you do this in Synaptic, but you are _adding_ packages, not upgrading. Apparently debian can have several versions of these installed without breakage. You may find that gcc-4.8 will automatically bring in g++-4.8 (or was it the other way around?).
4) Again as root, delete the list you put in /etc/apt/sources.list.d and again sudo apt-get update so you don't accidentally break anything.
Once you've retrieved these packages, Arcticfox should run, but you may have to go into its preferences and set up custom fonts, or you could have some web pages with no text.
I hadn't tested prior to doing this update, but I also now can run Seamonkey, with the same font issue. Download from this page:
https://github.com/wicknix/SpiderWeb/wiki/Download
I don't _think_ this fix works for FadedOrb, SpiderWeb or InterWeb, as there's a different error when they have failed to launch in Wheezy. However, all hope is not lost. I have been (judiciously) updating a few packages (e.g. - LXDE components) from the Jessie repositories, and must have accidently updated a library that 'fixes' those browsers as well. I now have these working as well.
- Don
