Re: [SOLVED] Firefox + Thunderbird upstream solution

[Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>]

On Fri, 2021-12-10 at 15:45 +0000, piorunz wrote:
> On 10/12/2021 15:27, Tixy wrote:
> 
> > Will Firefox be able to update itself with security updates?
> > One HowTo on the web I saw said to change permissions of files
> > extracted from the tarball to allow this, (using chmod 755). Though to
> > me, it seems that wouldn't help without changing the owner too, which
> > I've done (to my user). Will see how things go on the next ESR release.
> 
> For me it won't work, as I put these files as root deliberately, and I
> run firefox executable in firejail. Firefox cannot modify anything apart
> from it's own .mozilla folder and Downloads folder. I am happy to
> redownload manually when there is an update from Mozilla.

And I guess Firefox will let you know there's a new version, time will
tell. I mainly wanted to mention this issue in case other people follow
your recipe and don't consider updates. Now they'll know from our
discussion :-)

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Tixy