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Article #715Re: WTF is the bloatware xulrunner for?
From: atec 7 7
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:31
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:31
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terryc wrote: > On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:32:59 +1000, atec 7 7 wrote: > >> terryc wrote: >>> Performed the routine package update on my debian lenny boxen and gain >>> this little piece of crappy bloatware; xulrunner-1.9. >>> >>> Seems i can not run iceweasel without this crap running as well. >>> >>> Can anyon remember the location of the aptitude Recommnds:False >>> setting. I want to see if I can get iceweasel back, otherwise, it is >>> time to give firefox the flicken. >>> >>> >>> >> I run auf knoppix which happily doesn't seem to have such problems >> interesting and useful for hams from DG7MGY > > Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. What browsers does it provided? > > From what I understand, this is going to infest everything from Mozilla, > so it looks like firefox(ideweasel), thunderbird and all their other crud > is going down with it. > It has iceweasel but I use firefox happily so it's a common browser across all the machines Seems to be a little more configurable than most distros and happily runs two tnc's acts as a print server and does lots of other stuff on a 2 gig with 1 gig ram leaving heaps of power wasted , have run on a pIII 1 gig happily before the hardware upgrade .
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