ICEWEASEL(1) Linux User's Manual ICEWEASEL(1)NAMEiceweasel - a Web browser for X11 derived from the Mozilla browser
SYNOPSISiceweasel [OPTIONS] [URL]
/usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin [OPTIONS] [URL]
DESCRIPTION
Iceweasel is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compli‐
ance, performance and portability.
USAGEiceweasel 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.
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 Pro‐
file 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.
Debugger options
-g, -debug
Starts Iceweasel through a debugger (gdb by default).
--debugger program
Use program as a debugger for Iceweasel. Implies -debug.
ENVIRONMENT
ICEWEASEL_DSP - configures the /dev/dsp wrapper to use. Accepted values
are "auto", "artsdsp", "esddsp", "aoss" or "none" (default).
MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS - when set, totally disables loading browser
plugins (the ones that appear at the about:plugins url)
FILES
/usr/bin/iceweasel - shell script wrapping firefox-bin
/usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin - iceweasel executable
/etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc - file containing environment variables to
be passed to Iceweasel.
${HOME}/.mozilla/firefox/rc - file containing environment variables to
be passed to Iceweasel. Overrides /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc
BUGS
To report a bug, please visit http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ and/or
report bugs to the Debian Bug Tracking System, as usual.
AUTHORS
The Mozilla Organization
http://www.mozilla.org/about.html
iceweasel November 4, 2004 ICEWEASEL(1)