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There has been some talk about ubuntu here-- what is the best way to keep up to date with browsers on ubuntu (/linux).. there is no 'check for updates' within f

by polshaw 14y ago

There has been some talk about ubuntu here-- what is the best way to keep up to date with browsers on ubuntu (/linux).. there is no 'check for updates' within firefox, and the repositories are often out of date [1] 1. to be fair, i don't know about FF, i can't really complain that it might be a day out of date.. but chromium is way behind. Also what about living on the beta/aurora channels?

tomku 14y ago
The Chromium package in Ubuntu is several major versions behind, and I would definitely not suggest using it. Debian has up-to-date versions in sid. Firefox on Ubuntu gets timely (within a couple days of upstream) updates, and the official Chrome PPA (from Google, installed when you use their .deb package) is kept up to date. Edited for correctness, thanks xfs.
- xfs 14y ago
  "effectively unmaintained"? It has 21 updates till now in this year, probably just one release behind chromium stable channel. http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/c/chromium-browser/current/changelog http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/c/chromium-b... Of course you need sid, because of too many bugs.
  - tomku 14y ago
    I'll edit my post, you're absolutely right.
- jevinskie 14y ago
  Is the "official Chrome PPA" the same thing as the APT repository that the Chrome .deb (downloaded from google.com/chrome) adds to your sources.list?