[PLUG] Thunderbird & Firefox Updates

[Piet van Weel]

That would probably explain it. (I'm on my *Doze box right now.)

Piet

Jason R. Martin wrote:
> On 4/21/06, Bruce Kilpatrick <bakilpatrick at verizon.net> wrote:
>   
>> Interesting question.
>> I can't find anything in Thunderbird that checks for an update.  I find
>> a  check for updates to extensions and themes, but not for the program
>> itself.
>> With Ubuntu I have to change the ownership of Firefox and manually go
>> check for updates since I upgraded to version 1.5.
>>     
>
> That's because with Ubuntu (and most other distros) you are expected
> to use apt to get the updates, not Firefox's built-in update
> capabilities.
>
> The built-in update capabilities is only useful on platforms that do
> not have distro update functionality, such as Windows and Mac.
>
> Jason
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