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http://crunchbanglinux.org – There's been a number of people looking to install Firefox in Statler. Even though it is essentially the same thing as iceweasel, users are reporting that iceweasel is somewhat slower than Chrome or Firefox.Thankfully Clem at Linuxmint is now packaging Firefox for Debian. At the time of writing it is at version 3.6.8 which is more up to date than iceweasel which is at 3.5.11. Download it here http://packages.linuxmint.com/list.php?release=Debian. As a minimum you'll need both the Firefox and firefox-l10n-en-us packages. Note that it will install in /opt.If you'd like to add the (HowTos)

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Submitted by bolly on 09/16/2010 – Made popular on 09/16/2010

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