Comment 6 for bug 263566
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| Michael Rooney (mrooney) wrote Re: Firefox 3: Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Update options disabled | #6 |
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Hi clovepower, thanks for using Ubuntu and thanks for your bug report! However, this is expected behavior. All Ubuntu updates are routed through Ubuntu's own update manager, and for good reason. It isn't the job of Firefox developers to ensure their updates don't break in Ubuntu and in the case that they did and Firefox could update itself, our entire userbase would suffer this failure. Updates are pushed out by Ubuntu only after they have been tested, to ensure there is no breakage. This paradigm is overall a huge win for Ubuntu users IMO, and something important in the open-source world where developers aren't necessarily writing code just for a particular OS.
It might be nice to not have these options at all but that would require a non-trivial change to the Firefox package and require maintenance.