Re: Firefox Warning [SOLVED]
On 12/27/23, Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-12-27 at 11:05 -0600, Mike McClain wrote:
>> If I recall correctly, Firefox used to have a checkbox in the
>> preferences to permit or deny auto updates. In this version 121.0 for
>> the Raspberry PI, that's no longer so and I'm quite sure that FF
>> updated itself without asking.
>
> Debian's Firefox is the latest ESR version, i.e. 115, not 121, so it
> seems like you've not been talking about a Debian package but something
> you originally download and installed from somewhere else e.g. from
> Mozilla's site or installed some flatpack or something. That might
> explain why it didn't play nicely with your Debian desktop and wants to
> update itself to new versions. (Non-ESR versions don't get security
> updates so I assume whoever built the software you installed wanted
> users to keep up-to-date and included a mechanism to ensure that.)
Something still doesn't sound right. I've got that 121 off the Mozilla
website. It has to wait for my intervention. It complains that it does
not have permission to install each progressive update. In my beady
little brain, that's how it should be for safety's sake.
That said, I know that there are circumstances where the User can only
untar/install that outside package under something like
/home/user/(.)local. Number One reason would be the User does not have
any admin/root permissions.
If that was the case, Mozilla would probably be able to silently run
all the updates it wants in the background. If that tar file was
untarred as root instead, Mozilla... can't touch this.
The only other thing I can think of, and that I hate to have to type,
is virus so I hope it's "just" something about the permissions level
when the package is installed. Permissions would explain one part of
what happened. I'm going to respond to the other part in a few.. That
toolbar thing is a party of two........
Cindy :)
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