Switching from Debian Iceweasel to Firefox, permanently

[techAdmin]

that looks good, I'm not seeing many problems re adding that installer to smxi, a packaged firefox solves a lot of issues.

I may add both, I'm not sure. As you can see above, there's a few tweaks required to make firefox the true system default, some of those I can't script though.

[secipolla]

Hey,h2. What if you maintained it?
In case you don't think it would be troublesome for you then you could offer that to Clem.

[secipolla]

Thinking again, there are all the localization packages too.
Anyway, if you're interested his email is root at linuxmint dot com

[techAdmin]

no, I'm not going to maintain a package, it's too much work, you have to get changes out too often.

Plus I'd have to deal with learning all that stuff, not for me. I have enough to do with my other script stuff.

[Rustom]

I was trying to automate my firefox/iceweasel upgrades

So wrote a script: firefox-afterupgrade

:: Code ::

# replace iceweasel by forefox
# should be run after an iceweasel upgrade
# from http://techpatterns.com/forums/about1435.html
# Assuming downloaded into /opt

# Only needs to be done once -- the first time
# chown <username> -R /opt/firefox
mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox-iw
ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

However I dont like to get the diversion message.
So I wrote

:: Code ::

rm /usr/bin/firefox
ln -s /usr/bin/iceweasel /usr/bin/firefox

But I still get the diversion