Firefox self-updates

[NoOp]

On 01/16/2008 11:01 AM, Richard wrote:
> is there a way to have Firefox 2.xx.11 to a self- update check,
> it would appear that option is grayed out.
> 
> TIA
> Richard
> 

Yes. The problem is that FF needs to have write permissions in order to
do the update:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.11/releasenotes/
<quote>
All Systems
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Software Update will not work if Firefox is installed to a location on
your disk to which you do not have write access, since Software Update
needs to replace or create files in this location.
</quote>

[Same issue with Thunderbird]

You can do this by:

Remove the Ubuntu Firefox and install the mozilla FF directly to your
home directory where you have full r/w access.

You could give FF write access in your existing Ubuntu install. But this
would create 2 problems: 1) possible security issue if you don't know
exactly what FF file(s) need write access, and 2) performing the update
via the button, and hence mozilla.com would very likely break your
existing (U)FF installation due to the modifications that Ubuntu have
made on the (U)FF version.

I'd recommend that you file a bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/
and ask the developers to modify (U)Firefox so that Software Update is
enabled if you aren't comfortable doing 1 or 2 above.