[ubuntu-za] Tip: keeping Mozilla stuff up to date

Ivo Vegter ivo at hivemind.net
Tue Oct 23 14:06:08 BST 2007


I wrote:
> Keeping Firefox/Thunderbird up to date has been a problem on Ubuntu, 
> because once a release is available, only security updates are added to 
> the main repositories. So Gutsy ships with (and stays with) Firefox 
> 2.0.0.6, for example, even though 2.0.0.8 is already available.

Duh. A day later, the 2.0.0.8 Ubuntu version appeared in the repositories.

Now the only reason to use the script I mentioned is to install the 
original Mozilla version of Firefox, so that the Colorzilla extension 
works :-)

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