Can't figure out how to check for updates in Firefox for Ubuntu
I'm running "Firefox 3.6.13 Mozilla Firefox for Ubunto canonical - 1.0". How do I check for updates? The how-to here in the help site says to look for the updates item in the Help menu but there isn't any such. I can't find it in the Tools menu, or in Edit>Preferences. Where is it hiding?
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Your user agent shows that you use the Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) branded version.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.13
Such versions can only be updated from the repositories via software update and not via Firefox, so you have to check that and wait until Ubuntu offers such an update.
If you want to update yourself then you have to install Firefox by downloading the official relaes from the Mozilla server.
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Your user agent shows that you use the Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) branded version.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.13
Such versions can only be updated from the repositories via software update and not via Firefox, so you have to check that and wait until Ubuntu offers such an update.
If you want to update yourself then you have to install Firefox by downloading the official relaes from the Mozilla server.
Okay, Thanks! Guess I'll just wait.
How do I set the question to "okay I'm happy now, close out the thread"? Or need I?
Only the official builds from Mozilla can get updates patches as one cannot expect Mozilla to provide update patches to builds that Mozila did not well build.
The reason the Help->Check for updates was missing was because Ubuntu removed it.