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Firefox4 and Iceweasel browser

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Hi! I am using Debian and i saw that there are two browsers available. The first is Epiphany whitch i do not use and the second is Iceweasel. I am bit confused cause i do not know if firefox4 is different of iceweasel or not. If they are the same why there are two names?

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Hi! I am using Debian and i saw that there are two browsers available. The first is Epiphany whitch i do not use and the second is Iceweasel. I am bit confused cause i do not know if firefox4 is different of iceweasel or not. If they are the same why there are two names? thank you...

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cor-el
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Epiphany now uses WebKit as the rendering engine. See Help > About in Epiphany.
Iceweasel and Firefox use the Gecko rendering engine. I don't know if there is a recent Iceweasel version.