request: Firefox 1.0.4 backported

[XDevHald]

don't include staging unless you wanna help testing

if you want only firefox from backports staging (pretty stable)
go here and download the deb

http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/ba...n/binary-i386/
don't forget to download the gnomesupport deb too!

install it with :
dpkg -i packagename

Nice thanks for the link demon, had to get gnomesupport considering I never had it

[N'Jal]

Thanks guy's i decided to include staging but leave it commented out. Dl ff and gnome support now

[rwabel]

if someone is still suffering from the problem that they can't visit firefox addons page here's the solution
go to about:config
search for general.useragent.vendorSub
change it from 1.0 to 1.0.4
and it should work

source : https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10681

thanks a lot for the tip. works fine now

[Gandalf]

thanks a lot for the tip. works fine now

no problem!!!

[jdong]

Alright, it seems like this backport's stable. Due to the security nature of this update, I'm promoting it now.

[fishfork]

I don't think warty's firefox is full of holes ... because all security fixes that apply to warty's firefox are "backported" into it.

Unfortunately not. According to this page, there are a lot of unfixed issues in Warty's firefox.

[AgenT]

Apologies if I came across as critical

Nothing wrong with being critical as it can point out ways to improve. I also did not mean to sound too harsh.

It would be nice to be able to download the updates as official signed packages, though!

I may be wrong, and probably am, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that signed packages are in the works. I tried looking where I could have read this but found nothing.

[AgenT]

Unfortunately not. According to this page, there are a lot of unfixed issues in Warty's firefox.

I would take a venture to guess that is because Ubuntu is focusing its efforts on the newest release, not the older one. Both are supported, but the newer version gets priority. But this is not the fault of the method, just look at Debian. They use very *old* packages in stable and yet they are, well, the most stable distro out there (if you use only stable packages). And it has few vulnerabilities. There are a lot of jokes that go around from silly people about how old Debian packages are, but there is a good reason for that.

[jodef]

Agreed, but that's exactly the kind of bureaucratic problem I was talking about! Perhaps they could look at each package seperately and decide whether releasing a new version would affect stability or not. Is there any particular reason to 'keep all the numbers the same'?

Maybe I'm flogging this one to death, but it really galled me was when I realised that Firefox on windows was safer than on Ubuntu. As you say, I've got backports, so my desktop's fine for the time being. It would be nice to be able to download the updates as official signed packages, though!

It's not exactly a bureaucratic problem it's the same debate that has always existed security vs stability; Breezy has all the up to date packages but that also means there is the chance of system instability. In the case of Firefox the releases aren't strictly security updates some enhancements/changes also end up in the mix hence the reason as well for a lot of broken extensions even between the minor version changes. I would like to see the security patches end up as incremental changes rather than whole downloads. Having to d/l a 8MB+ file on dial up to fix a security flaw really sucks but then I really don't know how much work is involved in implementing that suggestion.

[jdong]

Breezy has all the up to date packages but that also means there is the chance of system instability.

That's not a true statement in itself. For a "fast-releasing" distro, I'm disappointed that Ubuntu's dev branch isn't as fast paced as slower brethren, like Redhat's RawHide. Look at RawHide. Firefox 1.0.4 was uploaded hours after unofficial tagging. They're running CVS snapshots of libraries, testing them out. Fedora releases even less often than Ubuntu, but the dev branch is interesting.


Breezy still has Firefox 1.0.2, and barely keeps in check with Sid. I really hope that Grumpy kicks off soon, because I can't satisfy backports requests using Ubuntu packages (have to go off to Debian, which proved inadequate as far as Firefox goes)