Why doesn't Firefox from Canonical get updated?

[Chris]

On Sat, 2016-10-22 at 15:02 -0500, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> 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
> 
I agree with both you can Colin Jim. After applying what Francis
suggested last night which worked once and only once for some reason I
went in and with the menu editor changed the path over to read
~/firefox/firefox which now runs the Mozilla version not the Ubuntu
distribution. I'm happy as long as I have a Firefox that works


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Chris
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