New Ubuntu-Firefox - maybe safer but not 100%

Sam Tygier samtygier at yahoo.co.uk
Fri May 13 13:46:37 UTC 2005


in debian based linuxs the security fixes are put into the existing version of softare
so the fixes in the official firefox 10.0.3 and 1.0.4 get 'backported' to the ubuntu 1.0.2, and released as  1.0.2-ubuntu1, 1.0.2-ubuntu2, etc

see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=33475






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