Do I have to update Firefox Manually?

[candylovergirl]

Hello,

Do I have to update Firefox Manually or Software Update will do it for me?

Thanks
Camelia

[gdesilva]

Software Updater will notify you of any updates to FF.

[candylovergirl]

Software Updater will notify you of any updates to FF.

Oh! this is a very nice feature of Ubuntu !!

Thank you very much

Camelia

[crip720]

Ubuntu updates most software that it or you install. There are very few programs that you will need to update manually, mainly app images. Some third party programs like google chrome will ask if you want them updated by ubuntu when installing them.

[candylovergirl]

Ubuntu updates most software that it or you install. There are very few programs that you will need to update manually, mainly app images. Some third party programs like google chrome will ask if you want them updated by ubuntu when installing them.

Thank you very much, I am very happy with Ubuntu updates

Camelia

[TheFu]

It depends on how the software was installed whether any special updating is needed or not.

If you always use the package manager to find, download, and install software, then the updates for that package manager will handle it. There are different settings to control whether updates happen automatically or not. I have them disabled on all my systems; reasons.

If you manually download some package and manually install it, then you'll need to manually maintain it. That is the rule regardless of how any manual software is installed.

On Linux, answers are seldom simple, but almost always have very clear reasons.