Why doesn't Firefox from Canonical get updated?

[Jim Byrnes]

On 10/22/2016 01:22 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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


I agree Colin.  Firefox updates come frequently. Whenever I get an 
update I always go and look at the change log to see what they have 
added or removed. The dates when we get the updates are only a few days 
after the release date.

Regards,  Jim