Why doesn't Firefox from Canonical get updated?

[Colin Law]

On 22 October 2016 at 09:49, Lukas Erlacher <erlacher at in.tum.de> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> According to your signature you are running a long-term support release of
> Ubuntu, which by design skews against frequent updates because of the idea
> that updates very frequently introduce new bugs or even just unwanted
> changes in functionality. This means updates are typically limited to
> critical security patches backported onto a version of the package that was
> locked in when the Ubuntu distribution was released, with all other patches
> ignored.
>


In fact I believe that that does not apply to Firefox as security fixes are
not released upstream for old versions of Firefox, so the only way to get
security fixes is to use the latest version of FF.  I think it is the case
that all supported versions of Ubuntu use the same version of FF, which
lags only a little from the latest available upstream.

I could be wrong, if so then someone will correct me.

Colin

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