Why no firefox 3.5 update?

**Norm24** · July 7th, 2009

Have yet to get a notice to update.

So I manually downloaded 3.5 thru the repos and it still shows as being 3.0.11!

Any ideas?

**Celauran** · July 7th, 2009

It's listed as Shiretoko. Firefox is still 3.0.11

**philinux** · July 7th, 2009

Originally Posted by Norm24

Have yet to get a notice to update.

So I manually downloaded 3.5 thru the repos and it still shows as being 3.0.11!

Any ideas?

Try

Applications>Internet>Shiretoko web Browser

They exist separately.

**Norm24** · July 7th, 2009

Still a Beta under Ubuntu.Didn't realize that as its an official release under all other OSs including most Linux distros for almost two weeks.Ubuntu repos usually follow suit pretty quickly.

**Celauran** · July 7th, 2009

It's no longer beta in Jaunty repos.

**Norm24** · July 7th, 2009

Originally Posted by Celauran

It's no longer beta in Jaunty repos.

Yup still is a Beta as of right now,hence the Shiretoko designation.Even though listed as 3.5 if you download thru Synaptics its still the Beta Shiretoko.

**philinux** · July 7th, 2009

If you enable the proposed repos you'll get the release. However in Jaunty i think they'll coexist. Karmic will have 3.5 as default.

**Celauran** · July 7th, 2009

Until yesterday the package in repos was listed as beta 4. Today this was no longer the case. Help -> Release Notes also points to 3.5, not 3.5beta4. If the version in repos is still beta, they're going out of their way to conceal the fact.

**lovinglinux** · July 8th, 2009

Originally Posted by Norm24

Yup still is a Beta as of right now,hence the Shiretoko designation.Even though listed as 3.5 if you download thru Synaptics its still the Beta Shiretoko.

It's not Beta. It's final release. The Shiretoko just means it's an unlicensed version, provided by the universe repositories, not the official one maintained by Canonical.

BTW...

The 4 most popular methods of installation of Firefox 3.5 (Psychocats, Ubuntuzilla, Repository, Shiretoko/Swiftfox) are available in the "Install Other Versions" section of the Firefox optimization and troubleshooting thread.

There is also a detailed explanation of each installation method provided, comparing the most important differences. I personally tested all of them and they work like a charm, but I recommend methods 1 (Psychocats) and 2 (Ubuntuzilla).