Warty's Firefox has an "Important Security Update" available

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:02:38PM -0700, Jason Pearce wrote:

> Update is detailed here:
> http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-10-01-02.html

It doesn't sound particularly severe, but it should certainly be fixed
before the release.  Please file a bug in bugzilla.

> This does bring up an interesting issue though.  Firefox isn't able to
> install its own updates on Ubuntu or on most any linux system when a user
> is running Firefox I would imagine. I am of course running on the
> assumptin that Firefox wants to update it's executable files (correct me
> if I'm wrong).
> 
> To work this would either require the Firefox browser to be run as root or
> to be sudo savvy. Either way the feature is questionable on any linux
> system since it very likely wants to update files that should only be
> touched by the OS package manager. Should this feature be compiled out? Or
> maybe just disabled by default?

Firefox's internal update feature should probably be disabled in Ubuntu.
Please file a bug about that as well.

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 - mdz