** Description changed:
- I ran "apt-get upgrad" in December and according to the log I got
- firefox-3.0 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 installed.
+ In December and according to the log I installed
+ firefox-3.0 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
At that time the "About" box in Firefox 3 said:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071719
Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.5
- Yesterday I ran "apt-get upgrade" again and got
+ Yesterday I ran "apt-get upgrade" and got
xulrunner-1.9 1.9.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.2 installed.
Now the "About" box in Firefox 3 says:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121621
Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.5
- This means: I had upgraded firefox, but not xulrunner-1.9.
+ This means: I had upgraded Firefox 3.0.5, but not xulrunner-1.9.
- Problem: The fact that apt allows updating Firefox without updating Gecko
leaves me with all the
+ Problem: The fact that apt allows updating Firefox to 3.0.5 without updating
Gecko leaves me with all the
security holes and the perception that they're fixed.
+
+ Maybe the dependency between Firefox and xulrunner is too weak?
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Currently running
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.2
Release: 8.04
** Description changed:
- In December and according to the log I installed
- firefox-3.0 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
+ In December and according to dpkg.log, I installed
+ firefox-3.0 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
+ to update from Firefox 2.x to Firefox 3.x
At that time the "About" box in Firefox 3 said:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071719
Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.5
Yesterday I ran "apt-get upgrade" and got
xulrunner-1.9 1.9.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.2 installed.
Now the "About" box in Firefox 3 says:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121621
Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.5
- This means: I had upgraded Firefox 3.0.5, but not xulrunner-1.9.
+ This means: I had updated Firefox 3.0.5, but not xulrunner-1.9.
Problem: The fact that apt allows updating Firefox to 3.0.5 without updating
Gecko leaves me with all the
security holes and the perception that they're fixed.
Maybe the dependency between Firefox and xulrunner is too weak?
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Currently running
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.2
Release: 8.04
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Firefox updated but not xulrunner.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316708
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