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Re:Install Firefox 3.5 in Ubuntu 9.04 using Ubuntuzilla by nailer on Thursday July 16, 2009 @03:51PM (#708630)
Firefox has an alert mechanism. If there's an update, that alert mechanism sends you to firefox.com, you get a new package for your OS.

This already works for .exe and .dmg versions, there is nothing stopping it from also working for the .dpkg and .rpm versions.

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Re:Install Firefox 3.5 in Ubuntu 9.04 using Ubuntuzilla by thras on Thursday July 16, 2009 @06:11PM (#708888)
If you're running as a user with administrative privileges, as I believe I already pointed out. Our users don't, since they run on multi-user boxes.
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Re:Install Firefox 3.5 in Ubuntu 9.04 using Ubuntuzilla by nailer on Friday July 17, 2009 @03:20AM (#709442)
If you had the permission to install the package in the first place, you have the permission to update it.

In locked down environmentsthat case, the admins can supply the nice properly packaged MSI / dmg / rpm / dpkg version that Firefox provides to the users via their deployment tool.

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Re:Install Firefox 3.5 in Ubuntu 9.04 using Ubuntuzilla by thras on Friday July 17, 2009 @09:51AM (#709843)
Our users didn't install Firefox in the first place. We did. And we have to update it. It's damn annoying.
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