<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Tommy Trussell <<a href="mailto:tommy.trussell@gmail.com">tommy.trussell@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im"> [...] </div>You may be misinformed about the ability to get updates -- the Ubuntu packages of Firefox AND OpenOffice get frequent updates that address security issues; just very few feature updates for any particular Ubuntu release. (Look carefully at the version numbering and updates for Firefox -- every time there is an announced security issue you can expect to see an updated version to address it; the difference from using the Mozilla version is that the Firefox version won't change in the same way. OpenOffice gets relatively few security updates, so you won't see so many.) One serious advantage of this is that if you have a web service or site that depends upon a particular quirk of Firefox, there should be no unpleasant surprises or breakages after a security update. As for the OpenOffice version, you may discover that Ubuntu includes some of the Go-OO patches -- <a href="http://go-oo.org/" target="_blank">http://go-oo.org/</a> -- so if you install an "official" OpenOffice .deb you will lose those enhancements. SO you may find you are happier with the Ubuntu version than the official one, even if it does not have the higher version number you are looking for. [...]</blockquote></div> T.T.-- I guess that I should have been explicit about my reasons for wanting the latest updates of Firefox and Open Office. It's not for me; it's for one of my housemates. She has a Yahoo! email account; and an email that she was printing out would only come out in something like size 8 font. I tried copying and pasting to Open Office and Open Office crashed whenever I tried to print the resulting document. What I ended up doing was -- from her computer -- to forward her email from her Yahoo! email account to my Gmail account. Then (again, from her computer) I accessed my Gmail account and used Firefox to print up the said email in readable font size. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that for whatever reason that that version of Firefox does not play well with either Yahoo! or Open Office. That is why I want to upload the latest versions of Firefox and Open Office onto her machine; I want to see if the latest version of Firefox can print a readable font-sized email, or (failing that) if the latest versions of Firefox and Open Office can be induced (via the clipboard) to print something at a readable font size. Anyway, I'm now going to see if that that housemate is still up will let me work on her computer at this hour. --N.B. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html</a> & <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">http://www.openoffice.org</a> (Nathan Bahn)