Faulty Software Updater on 16.04

[Liam Proven]

On 6 October 2017 at 21:58, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
>
> Actually dpkg as well as
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/apt-mark.8.html allow
> to "hold" packages and to upgrade anything else, assuming there
> should be no dependency conflicts, but I'm not willing to help you
> holding a browser, that needs a security upgrade,
> https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3391-1/ . Synaptic allows this, too, but
> is using another term, not "hold".

This is wise and prudent.

Bret, it is NOT SAFE to run out of date browsers.

Switch to the ESR version direct from Mozilla. Add the Ubuntuzilla
repositories, uninstall Ubuntu's provided Firefox and add the ESR
version.

Then proceed as normal.

By the way, the accusation of F'fox 50 being malware sounds like
paranoid insanity. But it's long dead anyway. Current is v56.


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