![]() ![]() Now, this option would have been slightly bearable were it not for the annoying update notification that pop-ups a few minutes into a new browsing session. In place of the now defunct option, Mozilla seems to expect such users to make do with the check updates and notify to install option. This is all good, but it takes away from the countless more, usually the more experienced tech-savvy crowd, the choice to make this decision at their own discretion. Now I’m not sure what prompted this decision, but if I were allowed to speculate then the most likely reason is that Mozilla is merely trying to protect users from themselves that is, pushing security updates they deem urgent and that would otherwise go ignored by some users. Check for updates but let you choose to install them. ![]() Automatically install updates (recommended).Even if it doesn’t and you install Firefox in Ubuntu on your own, even in that case you can update Firefox with the regular system update. You’ll notice that apart from the system and kernel updates, Ubuntu also provides updates on some installed software.įirefox is no different. If you expand it a bit, you can see what kinds of updates are there. Ubuntu often prompts for the availability of new updates. If you install applications from the software center or use the apt or apt-get command for installing any software, it is Ubuntu’s responsibility to provide you software updates. If you are new to Ubuntu then let me tell you something about the updates. Probably this is the reason why people switching to Linux from Windows wonder about updating Firefox on Ubuntu. No notifications for the availability of a Firefox update here. Or, you go to settings menu -> Help -> About Firefox to see the current version and if there is an update available.īut that’s not the case in Linux. On Windows, Firefox prompts for updating the browser. Then I understood the context behind the question. ![]()
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