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Getting updates from Mozilla

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I'm currently using Ubuntu and Ubuntu's Firefox gets updated from Canonical. How can I change this? I mean I want to get updates from Mozilla and not from Canonical

I'm currently using Ubuntu and Ubuntu's Firefox gets updated from Canonical. How can I change this? I mean I want to get updates from Mozilla and not from Canonical

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Install the official version of Firefox which you can download from Mozilla.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

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If you want to do automatic updates, then do this:

  1. Go to the Firefox menu
  2. Go to options
  3. A dialog box will come up, go to the advanced tab
  4. Go to automatically check for updates.

If you want to update it yourself, then when you want to update:

  1. Go to the Firefox menu
  2. Go the the help menu
  3. Then go to about Firefox, and then check for updates.
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^ that is disabled in the Ubuntu Firefox version. Ubuntu Firefox gets updated from Canonical, not from Mozilla.

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Thank you for that. I wasn't sure what Ubuntu was, I thought it was similar to the regular Firefox.

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I've installed it from Software Center.

I'm trying another distro (elementaryOS) and i'm trying to install a clean version of Firefox. Since i'm still a noob in the Linux Command terminal thing i've followed this tut here https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Installing+Firefox+on+Linux

And this is what I got :/

elementary@elementary:~$ cd ~ elementary@elementary:~$ tar xjf firefox-*.tar.bz2 elementary@elementary:~$ cd ~/firefox/firefox bash: cd: /home/elementary/firefox/firefox: Not a directory elementary@elementary:~$ cd ~/firefox/ elementary@elementary:~/firefox$ firefox The program 'firefox' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install firefox elementary@elementary:~/firefox$

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Can't update my last message :/

What If I change the app.update.url in the about:config?