Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richmond Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.firefox Subject: Re: policies.json Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:44:04 +0100 Organization: Frantic Message-ID: <82mryq22jv.fsf@example.com> References: <10sin49$tkil$2@dont-email.me> <82tssy24ez.fsf@example.com> <10sj7q5$10uuo$7@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="1000547"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RrCWXufWJABpcMDGRjL+cykMGZw= sha1:PCKkW9z0K9K7Zba1CPGuP++CijI= X-User-ID: eJwFwQEBACAIA7BM1x8wDiL0j+CmbbBymowaTUO1ztuNQCeSd6bsucJ5HbuyK3Boyzkx+QEm8xFr Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.software.firefox:16827 The Real Bev 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