{"id":598,"date":"2009-06-13T11:39:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T08:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2009-06-13T11:39:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T08:39:09","slug":"switching-from-iceweasel-to-swiftfox-on-debian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2009\/06\/13\/switching-from-iceweasel-to-swiftfox-on-debian\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching from Iceweasel to Swiftfox on debian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve bumped into an Iceweasel + adblock plus bug: <a href=\"http:\/\/bugs.debian.org\/cgi-bin\/bugreport.cgi?bug=525938\">iceweasel: AdBlock Plus (1.0.2) custom element hiding filters does not work<\/a><br \/>\nIt looks like Iceweasel from the stable branch of debian (version 3.0.6-1) has a problem hiding elements from websites. That makes some parts of adblock plus useless and ads start appearing on various websites.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s weird is that the problem only appears on Iceweasel and not on official Firefox (as the bug report says).<\/p>\n<p>My options were to either a) switch to a testing\/unstable version of Iceweasel from debian, b) get a binary package from firefox website or c) get another custom version. I chose method c) and I got <a href=\"http:\/\/getswiftfox.com\/\">swiftfox<\/a>. Since Swiftfox provides a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/getswiftfox.com\/deb.htm\">debian repo<\/a> it was really easy to install and test. The whole experiment got even more interesting since swiftfox provides builds for firefox version 3.5&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After a <code>update-alternatives --config x-www-browser<\/code> I was ready to test it.<br \/>\nSwiftfox 3.5b4 works great with adblock plus and it even feels a bit faster. I can&#8217;t really tell for sure though. The only addon I had to reinstall was <a href=\"http:\/\/getfiregpg.org\/\">firegpg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My impressions are great so far and I think I will keep it, at least until the bug mentioned gets resolved somehow on the stable branch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve bumped into an Iceweasel + adblock plus bug: iceweasel: AdBlock Plus (1.0.2) custom element hiding filters does not work It looks like Iceweasel from the stable branch of debian (version 3.0.6-1) has a problem hiding elements from websites. That makes some parts of adblock plus useless and ads start appearing on various websites. What&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[127,128,37,33,114,125,595,126],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-adblock-plus","tag-browser","tag-bug","tag-debian","tag-firefox","tag-iceweasel","tag-linux","tag-swiftfox"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":13059,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}