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mamamia88
June 27th, 2010, 04:17 AM
i am confused they have mozilla daily and mozilla security updates ppa. which one will get me the newest version of firefox quicker? the one that is on firefox.com not a preleased beta version

kmsalex
June 27th, 2010, 04:37 AM
mozilla security sounds more like it, nightly would currently be minfield 3.7 apha5 (son to become 4.0)

mikewhatever
June 27th, 2010, 04:37 AM
Firefox 3.6.4 is in the security ppa. Not sure about the other one.

mamamia88
June 27th, 2010, 04:41 AM
all right security ppa sounds better for me thanks guys. been having firefox 3.6.3 hang upon waking up from suspend 3.6.4 seems to have fixed problem

lovinglinux
June 27th, 2010, 12:42 PM
The daily ppa will give you alphas and beta releases, which might be unstable. Is better to use the security ppa, since it includes only versions that are about to enter the official repositories.

See the Installing Other Versions (http://firefox-tutorials.blogspot.com/2010/05/installing-other-versions.html) tutorial.

andrewabc
June 27th, 2010, 01:14 PM
Sometime soon they will be upgrading all firefox in >=8.04 to 3.6.4

I'm waiting for them to do this.

lovinglinux
June 27th, 2010, 01:17 PM
Sometime soon they will be upgrading all firefox in >=8.04 to 3.6.4

I'm waiting for them to do this.

Yes, they will. See this (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1500861).

andrewabc
June 27th, 2010, 01:22 PM
3.6.6 was just released. So I'm guessing they will push that out instead.
Hopefully soon.

I'm on 9.10 and used mozilla ppa to update to 3.6.3. I want to let normal ubuntu upgrade to 3.6.6, but it it takes a week or two I'll probably use the ppa.

mamamia88
June 27th, 2010, 01:24 PM
is there any disadvantage to just running firefox from tarball on mozillas site and creating a launcher in the applications menu? all my bookmarks work and so do my plugins. doesn't that seem like the easiest way to keep firefox up to date?

lovinglinux
June 27th, 2010, 01:28 PM
is there any disadvantage to just running firefox from tarball on mozillas site and creating a launcher in the applications menu? all my bookmarks work and so do my plugins. doesn't that seem like the easiest way to keep firefox up to date?

There is no disadvantage that I'm aware of. Indeed is the easiest way for me, although sometimes I compile Firefox myself to get better performance.

mamamia88
June 27th, 2010, 01:32 PM
allright cool thanks i think that's what i'll do. made a screenshot of all the extensions i have installed and backed up my bookmarks then i'm removing the ubuntu version of firefox and just running the version straight from mozilla

lovinglinux
June 27th, 2010, 01:43 PM
allright cool thanks i think that's what i'll do. made a screenshot of all the extensions i have installed and backed up my bookmarks then i'm removing the ubuntu version of firefox and just running the version straight from mozilla

Instead of making a screenshot of your extensions, use FEBE (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2109/) to make backups. It allows you to create a single installation file with all your extensions or backup your entire Firefox profile.

mamamia88
June 27th, 2010, 01:47 PM
cool man i'll give that a try

andrewabc
July 23rd, 2010, 11:28 AM
For those interested, I'm running ubuntu 9.10 and firefox 3.6.7 has been sent out to me, and I'm not using any firefox ppa.

So looks like they finally upgraded firefox for at least 9.10.

Although I had 3.6.3 from PPA installed (but I disabled ppa waiting for official ubuntu release).

lovinglinux
July 23rd, 2010, 04:25 PM
For those interested, I'm running ubuntu 9.10 and firefox 3.6.7 has been sent out to me, and I'm not using any firefox ppa.

So looks like they finally upgraded firefox for at least 9.10.

Although I had 3.6.3 from PPA installed (but I disabled ppa waiting for official ubuntu release).


Yes, it is.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=names&keywords=firefox

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1500861