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You should have iceweasel 31 according to https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/iceweasel

Which websites refuse to work?

You could always just add the linux mint repositories and install the real firefox that way. http://superuser.com/questions/322376/how-to-install-the-rea... is old but the instructions in the top-rated answer still work.

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I upgraded to Wheezy yesterday, I thought everything was up to date. I had "deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ wheezy-backports iceweasel-release" in my sources.list. My Iceweasel user agent at this moment says "Firefox/13.0"!

Nothing refused to work, just nag messages on various websites. But Firebug, the highest I could go was something like version 1.5 and the older versions starting junking up my context menu. Figured it was time to upgrade and start a Hacker News rant ;-)

Make sure you have wheezy/security as well. The vuln tracker often indicates issues fixed in wheezy/security iceweasel packages a lot more quickly than wheezy.

You should go to about:config, filter for "useragent" and see if you don't have overrides in place.

Also, the "about:" page should print out both the version and the user agent, you can see if they match.

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