[Bug 873700] [NEW] Firefox is too old on Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS

[Aymeric]

Public bug reported:

Firefox 3.6.23 is too old on Ubuntu LTS 10.04.3 stable and it can't display some website correctly.
Look screen-shot in attachment or do it yourself by visiting this website (fr) http://www.firasofting.com/blog/2011/dennis-ritchie-est-mort-et-tout-le-monde-sen-fout/

Updating to Firefox 7.0.1 from PPA fix the problems, but you can't
neither say to John Doe upgrade manually Firefox using a PPA nor upgrade
Ubuntu (remember the meaning of LTS ;-))!

Maybe this website isn't w3 valid (I haven't check) but it's display
correctly on Chromium, on Firefox 7.0.1 (on the same LTS, using PPA
mozillateam) (and even on the bad and ugly Internet Explorer!) and
saying to John Doe family's "Yes, until yesterday you was using Firefox
at home, at your work, anywhere, you've synced all of your
bookmarks/password/etc using firefox-sync, but because of Firefox in
Ubuntu isn't up to date you should now use Chromium/Opera/Other." isn't
a solution!

Regards,
Aymeric.

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test at LTS:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
Release:    10.04
Codename:    lucid
test at LTS:~$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.6.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
  Candidate: 3.6.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.6.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
test at LTS:~$

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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