1. NAME▲

iceweasel - a Web browser for X11 derived from the Mozilla browser

2. SYNOPSIS ▲

iceweasel [OPTIONS] [URL]

/usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin [OPTIONS] [URL]

3. DESCRIPTION ▲

Iceweasel is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability.

4. USAGE ▲

iceweasel is a simple shell script that will set up the environment for the actual executable, firefox-bin. If there is an Iceweasel browser already running, iceweasel will arrange for it to create a new browser window; otherwise it will start the Iceweasel application.

5. OPTIONS ▲

A summary of the options supported by iceweasel is included below.

5.1. X11 options ▲

  • --display= DISPLAY
        X display to use

--sync

    Make X calls synchronous

--no-xshm

    Don't use X shared memory extension

  • --xim-preedit= STYLE
  • --xim-status= STYLE

--g-fatal-warnings

    Make all warnings fatal

5.2. Mozilla options ▲

-h, -help

    Show summary of options.

-v, -version

    Print Iceweasel version.

  • -P [profile]
        Start with profile. When no profile is given, displays the Profile Manager. May require -no-remote, see below.

-migration

    Start with migration wizard. May require -no-remote, see below.

-ProfileManager

    Start with profile manager. May require -no-remote, see below.

-no-remote

    Don't connect to a running Iceweasel instance. This option can be necessary in conjunction to several of the options above, that won't have any effect when an Iceweasel instance is running unless -no-remote is used at the same time.

  • -UILocale locale
        Start with locale resources as User Interface locale. By default, it is guessed from environment and available locales for Iceweasel.

-safe-mode

    Starts Iceweasel in safe mode, i.e. disabling all extensions and showing a bit more debugging messages.

-jsconsole

    Start with Javascript Console

  • -new-window URL
        Open URL in a new window in an already running Iceweasel process.
  • -new-tab URL
        Open URL in a new tab in an already running Iceweasel process.
  • -chrome url
        Load the specified chrome.

5.3. Debugger options ▲

-g, -debug

    Starts Iceweasel through a debugger (gdb by default).

  • --debugger program
        Use program as a debugger for Iceweasel. Implies -debug.

6. ENVIRONMENT ▲

MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS - when set, totally disables loading browser plugins (the ones that appear at the about:plugins url)

7. FILES ▲

/usr/bin/iceweasel - shell script wrapping firefox-bin
/usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin - iceweasel executable

8. BUGS ▲

To report a bug, please visit http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ and/or report bugs to the Debian Bug Tracking System, as usual.

9. AUTHORS ▲

The Mozilla Organization

    .I http://www.mozilla.org/about.html