I installed from the Firefox "Help" site. When I typed "About" Firefox advised that a new version was available. I downloaded the .tar.gz file, unpacked it but after extraction,the original Ver 3.... showed up. Only Peppermint upgraded to 9 Thanks John
On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 23:16 +0000, Daniel Manrique wrote: > Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make > Ubuntu better. > > Could you detail the steps you followed to install Firefox 9? > > You may have installed from a .tar.gz, the Firefox site makes 9.0.1 > available in that format for Linux. However, .tar.gz packages are not > handled by Ubuntu's packaging system (software center and apt-get), and > thus the OS tools would show the version originally included with the > system. You may have ended up with either a bad installation of Firefox, > or two installed versions. > > Anyway, if you let me know how you installed Firefox 9, I may be better > able to handle this bug report. > > Thanks! > > ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/908277 Title: which version Firefox Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: On governmen advice I attempted to upgrade my computers to Firefox ver9... Peppermint OS upgraded, Ubuntu 10.10 still shows ver 3... and MoonOS still shows ver 1 for Moon even though the two last OS said that they had updated. Most confusing. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: firefox 3.6.24+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-31.63-generic 2.6.35.13 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-31-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Dec 24 08:04:11 2011 FirefoxPackages: firefox 3.6.24+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.24+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 firefox-branding 3.6.24+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 abroswer N/A abrowser-branding N/A InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007.1) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: firefox To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/908277/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp