Fwd: re update firefox 9 to 11

[O. Sinclair]

On 12/05/12 07:57, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 12/05/12 07:43, ray burke wrote:
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: ray burke<rayburke30 at gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 06:39:18 +1000
>> Subject: re update firefox 9 to 11
>> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>>
>> Can anyone help please-
>>
>> I the other day update thru kpackagekit in my k 10.10 firefox 11, but
>> after i rebooted and started ff11 when
>> i went online it kept crashing ,and sent a report, then tried 11
>> attempts but still crashed, so I clonned back to my
>> k10.10mm backup which was clonned on 23/4/12, and again using ff9, so
>> how do I stop it updating to ff11,
>> showing within my kpakagekit? see attached
>
> Ray,
>
> If I read what you say above correctly, you are still using v10.10 of
> Kubuntu, right?
>
> If so then you ought to know that support by Canonical for 10.10 stopped
> in April - and it is now May. (You would have received and e-mail
> advising you about the EOL of 10.10 some time ago.)
>
> You should be upgrading to at least the next version of Kubuntu, which
> is 11.04 - but keep it mind that this 11.04 will reach EOL (End Of Life)
> this coming October - ie, in 5 months time.
>
> You should also know that Firefox is now currently at version 12
> (officially - but unofficially at v15 if you use the knightly builds).
> The upgrades since v9 which you are running contain many fixes including
> security fixes.
>
> Therefore you would be wise to upgrade your Kubuntu which would also
> upgrade your Firefox.
>
> BC
>
Wise or not wise could depend on hardware and other issues. In my 
experience older hardware do better with older versions of linux. That 
has actually been confirmed by tests done by Phoronix where "sandy 
bridge" et al do better with 12.04 but hardware older than that do 
better with 10.10.

So I would say (and I live by this rule myself): don't upgrade what 
works for the user. I have 3 laptops in the house and there is no 
question about it: the older ones run happier on older releases. The 
newest will not even work (graphic driver issues) on anything older than 
11.04.

Just a word on "it is always better to upgrade". Nope it aint, upgrades 
can break working software/hardware relations. Linux may be brilliant 
but regressions are not exactly uncommon.