iceweasel(1)

Usage

iceweasel [OPTIONS] [URL]

Overview

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

Usage

If there is an Iceweasel browser already running, iceweasel will arrange for it to create a new browser window; otherwise it will start a new instance.

Options

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

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

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.

Environment

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

Files

/usr/bin/iceweasel - symbolic link to /usr/lib/iceweasel/iceweasel.

/usr/lib/iceweasel/iceweasel - Iceweasel executable.

/usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin - Legacy executable.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 3 times.

-migration since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -new-tab since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

--debugger until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --gdk-no-debug until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --gtk-debug until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --gtk-module until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --gtk-no-debug until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -CreateProfile until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -a until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -contentLocale until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -debug until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -g until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -height until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -installer until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -width until Debian 5.0 (Lenny).