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In the new distro of Raspbian? I have done searches here but cannot find anything about whether or not I can use Chromium or Iceweasle on Raspbian Jessie. I would like to test browsers and find out which is fastest for my needs.

Running Raspbian Jessie on a Pi2b, about to upgrade to a pi3b.

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You can install both though chromium needs a 3rd party binary install or to built from source. To install iceweasel use the following command:

sudo apt-get install iceweasel

Details on installing chromium can be found here, you can also build from source

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  • thank you. In your experience, which is better? Chromium or Iceweasle? Or are they basically comparable? – BadgerTrucking May 19 '16 at 21:03
  • I am not sure there is that much difference, unless you need a specific function or api. If you need support for a specific feature you can check browser support at caniuse.com. – Steve Robillard May 19 '16 at 21:28
  • nope. No special needs. Just looking for faster browsing. – BadgerTrucking May 19 '16 at 22:44
  • So I've run into a problem. I used the sudo command to get Iceweasle... But it says that its unable to locate package iceweasle – BadgerTrucking May 19 '16 at 23:48
  • @BadgerTrucking check your spelling it is spelled wrong in your comment – Steve Robillard May 19 '16 at 23:51
  • Well... Spelling it correctly helps haha... But now I have another problem. When it asks the if I want to continue, I press y enter, and it pops up with "unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with - - fix missing?" im not sure what to do from here. – BadgerTrucking May 20 '16 at 00:51
  • have you tried what it suggests either sudo apt-get update or sudo apt-get install --fix missing? – Steve Robillard May 20 '16 at 00:58
  • Yes, and I haven't been able to make any kind of headway. Sudo apt-get update only results in multiple errors popping up. I try "" "install iceweasel" and it shoot out the error message about get update or fix-missing, and the result is o upgraded 0 newly installed, o to remove and 2 not upgraded. – BadgerTrucking May 20 '16 at 01:12
  • @BadgerTrucking telling us that apt-get update throws an error is not helpful what error message? – Steve Robillard May 20 '16 at 01:15
  • Give me a second and I'll take a picture. I am going to have to post the pictures as answers. I am doing all of this on mobile stack exchange and it won't let me post pictures as a comment. – BadgerTrucking May 20 '16 at 01:31
  • Oh my goodness... Technology is weird. So, sudo apt-get update somehow decided to work. So the update worked... However, using "install iceweasel" results in the Pi freezing during the unpacking. – BadgerTrucking May 20 '16 at 01:45