[ubuntu-users] Ubuntu 9.04 and Firefox browser

[Jay Daniels]

On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 17:55 -0500, Andrew Farris wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 16:39 -0600, Ted Hilts wrote:
> [snip]
> > 
> > then where are all the usual ad-ons associated with the Firefox browser 
> > or maybe they  just were not on the DVD I obtained from the Ubuntu user 
> > magazine.  
> 
> If you're looking for a specific add-on, you will usually find them in
> add/remove, or synaptic, but if they're not there, then use the add-ons
> menu from firefox itself ("Tools > Add-ons" from within Firefox). This
> gives you access to the whole web repository of plugins.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Andrew


My question, do the debs just add script to download the latest version
which is mostly what people want or does it add a specific version of a
firefox addon?

If the later is the case, I don't think browser addons should even be in
the repositories.


jay