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Firefox not updating Ubuntu Pro on 18.04

Asked by henry2

Running Ubuntu over 15 years and love 18.04 and have Ubuntu Pro and Firefox Browser will not update above version 113.0.2 but Google Chrome and Brave Browser are updating to 125 and above. ??? Firefox is my favorite.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

https://ubuntu.com/blog/18-04-end-of-standard-support

You'll get ESM with Ubuntu Pro which may not include Firefox (I personally am unsure as I don't use it)

You could switch to a snap/flatpack of the browser and get updates that way.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/ESM/18.04

Google Chrome and Brave Browser are not provided in the Ubuntu repositories, so they must come from an external source, and that is something different-

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Best Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131) said : 		#3

Officially, Ubuntu is only going to offer snaps:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/ESM/18.04#Firefox_.2F_Thunderbird_.2F_Chromium_.2F_LibreOffice

There is a PPA if you don't want to use snap: https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
It says it only supports FF-ESR (v115.x) for Ubuntu 18.04 ESM, but it also has a recently added version of FF 125 for 18.04, so maybe that will work too.

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henry2 (zzmax) said : 		#4

Nothing I have tried that was suggested has worked.

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henry2 (zzmax) said : 		#5

This WORKED , Thanks Solved.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#6

What happens when you open a terminal window and issue the command

sudo span install firefox

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henry2 (zzmax) said (last edit ): 		#7

It is now Solved by another contributor. Thanks

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henry2 (zzmax) said : 		#8

Did that and no success, but another contributor has solved it. Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#9

What was the fix? It may help others if they find this post