Re: [Hampshire] Updating Firefox 3.0.11 to 3.5.1 on Ubuntu 8…

2009/7/21 Victor Churchill <victorchurchill@???>:
> Following the recent thread on Firefox memory consumption, and reading
> today about Mozilla releasing 3.5.1 fixing a 'zero day' potential
> exploit in 3.5 [1], I thought moving to FF3.5.1 was worth a go. [2]
> However: 3.5 is not yet available under 8.10. So off we go to
> mozilla.org.
>

http://www.asoftsite.org/s9y/archives/160-FAQ-Where-can-I-get-firefox-3.5-for-Ubuntu.html

> Can anyone see why, having got the access rights to /usr/lib, the
> update to 3.5.1 is not visible?
>

3.5.1 isn't an update to 3.0, it's a new release. It's like oo2 vs oo3
or linux kernel 2.6.28 vis 2.6.31.

Cheers,
Al.