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Re: policies.json

From	Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.software.firefox
Subject	Re: policies.json
Date	2026-04-25 21:44 +0100
Organization	Frantic
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The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> writes:

> On 4/25/26 13:03, Richmond wrote:
>> This is a very odd thread to me. Judging by the mention of synaptic
>> its a debian based distribution. But Debian ships with ESR which
>> won't be on 150. So it could be some other distribution, or maybe
>> firefox wasn't installed from the repository. But you need to know
>> all these things to make sense of it.
>
> Perhap, but maybe not.  Slackware 14.2 (I think;15 wouldn't install)
> and the 149 tarball from mozilla. No idea about the debian stuff.

Ah, well the way I prevent updates if I have used the tarball is to
change the owner of firefox so it simply doesn't have permission to
update, unless I switch users.

i.e.

chown -R firefox:firefox /usr/local/firefox

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policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-25 08:37 -0700
  Re: policies.json "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2026-04-25 14:53 -0400
    Re: policies.json Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2026-04-25 21:24 +0200
      Re: policies.json Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-04-25 12:51 -0700
        Re: policies.json "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2026-04-25 15:54 -0400
          Re: policies.json Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-04-25 15:22 -0700
  Re: policies.json Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-04-25 21:03 +0100
    Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-25 13:22 -0700
      Re: policies.json Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-04-25 21:44 +0100
      Re: policies.json Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2026-04-25 23:09 +0200
        Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-25 14:58 -0700
          Re: policies.json Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-04-25 23:07 +0100
            Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-25 21:49 -0700
              Re: policies.json Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-27 02:06 +0000
                Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-26 21:40 -0700
                Re: policies.json Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-27 04:50 +0000
                Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-26 22:55 -0700
                Re: policies.json Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-27 07:57 +0000
                Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-27 11:13 -0700
                Re: policies.json "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-04-30 11:23 +0200
                Re: policies.json Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-30 22:12 +0000
                Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-30 20:27 -0700
                Re: policies.json Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-01 04:07 +0000
                Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-30 21:59 -0700
                Re: policies.json Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-01 06:44 +0000
                Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-05-01 09:16 -0700
                Re: policies.json Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-01 22:53 +0000
                Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-05-02 12:52 -0700
                Re: policies.json dillinger <dillinger@invalid.not> - 2026-05-02 22:50 +0200
                Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-05-02 21:59 -0700
                Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-30 20:23 -0700
    Re: policies.json Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-04-25 15:23 -0700
  Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-25 13:07 -0700
    Re: policies.json "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-04-27 00:51 +0800
      Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-26 12:17 -0700
        Re: policies.json Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-27 00:24 +0000
          Re: policies.json "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-04-27 12:27 +0800
          Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-26 21:30 -0700
            Re: policies.json Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-27 04:55 +0000
              Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-26 22:59 -0700
                Re: policies.json Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-27 08:03 +0000
                Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-27 11:15 -0700
        Re: policies.json Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-04-27 11:01 +0100
          Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-27 11:03 -0700
            Re: policies.json Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-04-27 19:37 +0100
              Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-27 11:48 -0700
                Re: policies.json Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-04-27 12:41 -0700
                Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-28 09:25 -0700
                Re: policies.json Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-04-28 17:43 +0100
                Re: policies.json Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-04-28 10:56 -0700
                Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-28 12:54 -0700
    Re: policies.json "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-04-29 17:49 +0800
      Re: policies.json Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-04-29 10:59 +0100
        Re: policies.json Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-04-29 11:47 +0100
          Re: policies.json Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-04-29 13:21 +0100
        Re: policies.json "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-04-29 21:25 +0800
          Re: policies.json "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-04-29 21:31 +0800
            Re: policies.json Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-04-29 14:41 +0100
              Re: policies.json "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-04-30 10:18 +0800
                Re: policies.json Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-04-30 09:58 +0100
                Re: policies.json "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-04-30 20:53 +0800
        Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-29 20:38 -0700
          Re: policies.json Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-30 05:51 +0000
            Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-29 23:35 -0700
              Re: policies.json Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-30 07:53 +0000
              Re: policies.json Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-04-30 09:01 +0100
                Re: policies.json Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-30 09:04 +0000
                Re: policies.json The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-04-30 20:20 -0700

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