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Re: How Upgrade easy FireFox with Linux ?

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From Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid>
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Subject Re: How Upgrade easy FireFox with Linux ?
Date Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:08:27 -0700
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Axel wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
>> Axel wrote:
>>> the software manager updates Firefox and Thunderbird in LM
>>
>> The user controls the updates in LM. Some users may not even /use/ the 
>> LM software manager, such as favoring Synaptic for package control, 
>> and configuring the LM update manager to 'taste'.
> 
> my point was there is no need to download updates for Firefox and 
> Thunderbird
> 
Well; I agree that there are all kinds of different ways to handle the 
issue of updates of all kinds, incl FF & Tb.

'Our' LM world has plenty of different options. There's a 'deep' 
discussion going on in the Ffx group which involves other worlds.

-- 
Mike Easter

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How Upgrade easy FireFox with Linux ? german newsgroups <usualsuspectrider@gmail.com> - 2026-04-25 19:59 +0200
  Re: How Upgrade easy FireFox with Linux ? Axel <none@not.here> - 2026-04-26 10:54 +1000
    Re: How Upgrade easy FireFox with Linux ? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-04-25 18:11 -0700
      Re: How Upgrade easy FireFox with Linux ? german newsgroups <usualsuspectrider@gmail.com> - 2026-04-26 06:33 +0200
      Re: How Upgrade easy FireFox with Linux ? Axel <none@not.here> - 2026-04-26 22:28 +1000
        Re: How Upgrade easy FireFox with Linux ? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-04-26 10:08 -0700
        Re: How Upgrade easy FireFox with Linux ? german newsgroups <usualsuspectrider@gmail.com> - 2026-05-06 06:30 +0200

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