Mozilla no longer ships Firefox 16 after discovering a critical security vulnerability [1], and are now recommending users to downgrade to version 15. What is the simplest way for Ubuntu users to do this, preferably via apt-get?
Mozilla no longer ships Firefox 16 after discovering a critical security vulnerability [1], and are now recommending users to downgrade to version 15. What is the simplest way for Ubuntu users to do this, preferably via apt-get?
You can go here http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ and download the tar. I don't remember how to install in terminal with tar (maybe some other can post the codes).
Or you can uninstall firefox from software center, and then install it again from software center. You should then get v 15.
Manually installing applications that are also installed via the package manager is generally a bad idea. Overwriting files without telling APT about it is a fine way of ending up in dependency hell.
No, v. 16 is still in the repos as of posting this.Or you can uninstall firefox from software center, and then install it again from software center. You should then get v 15.
.deb ff15 ??
@Carborundum, which repo are you getting Fx from?
I'm surprised that Fx 16 is available for 12.04 so soon. Normally, 3-4 days pass before Canonical's version is pushed.
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