Firefox addons

[NoOp]

On 09/06/2009 10:03 AM, Jay Daniels wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 12:33 -0400, John DeCarlo wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Jay Daniels <tux at myt60.net> wrote:
>>         In hardy with firefox, click tools/addons and then click, see
>>         all
>>         recommended addons.  It's always taken forever to load the
>>         page.
>>         
>>         Why does clicking this embedded link take so long to load the
>>         addon
>>         page?
>>         
>> Are you using the Firefox that comes with Hardy?  What version?
>> 
>> 
>> I recommend uninstalling it, going to  mozilla.com, downloading the
>> real Firefox, and installing that in /opt or /home/firefox
>> 
>> 
>> You will find much better performance.
> 
> But I would rather have a repository for latest version of firefox if
> it's never going to be backported to hardy.  Current installed is 3.0.13
> but I see 3.0.14 is out in the 3.0 tree which still seems to get
> security updates.

If you install to a home folder you will be able to automatically and/or
manually check for Fx updates. Simple, easy to do & very much ahead of
the (U)Fx curve. Same for SeaMonkey & Thunderbird.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729
Firefox/3.5.2

Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre)
Gecko/20090905 Lightning/1.0pre SeaMonkey/2.0pre

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715
Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0b3

http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox35.html

Security updates *are* maintained in Ubuntu:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0

3.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
Published in hardy-updates on 2009-08-05
Published in hardy-security on 2009-08-05

firefox-3.0 (3.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1) hardy-security; urgency=low

  * security/stability v3.0.13 (FIREFOX_3_0_13_RELEASE)
    - see USN-811-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-811-1
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-811-1 August 05, 2009 firefox-3.0,
xulrunner-1.9 vulnerability CVE-2009-2654

but tend to lag behind those of the mozilla updates (albeit for Fx only
by a day or two... sometimes for weeks w/SeaMonkey etc). Also note that
key development resources are placed on Fx 3.5.x, SM 2.0.x, TB 3.0.x;
the *only* development resources that are assigned to the earlier
versions are for security patches.