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> I think it's great that Firefox is bundled with Ubuntu, but I have to manually update Firefox each time a new release comes out because the version that's ins
by AdmiralAsshat 6y ago
> I think it's great that Firefox is bundled with Ubuntu, but I have to manually update Firefox each time a new release comes out because the version that's installed is a canonical-controlled version that stays 'stuck' on a old version and doesn't have an auto-update mechanism.
This is par for the course on some distros. Fedora, for example, has its own repository for Firefox that is sometimes behind the mainline release of Firefox (although in my experience it's usually only a few days).
The advantage of the process is that the Fedora Firefox repo actually has its own QA testing, so they occasionally catch some things that might impact Fedora users specifically, that otherwise might go unnoticed if I were to switch to the Firefox flatpak.