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official firefox 4 for 10.10

Asked by giff gill

For 10.04 this was answered here:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/125441

But what about 10.10? Will there be an update only when 3.6 reaches EOL or sooner considering the new firefox support model in Ubuntu and 10.10 not being a LTS release.
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-lucid-new-firefox-support-model

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Firefox 4 is the current stable version of Firefox. Current versions of Ubuntu do not have it (see !latest), but there is an unofficial and unsupported PPA that you can use by running the following command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox

HTH

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giff gill (giffgilll-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

^^ that is not an answer

Should I report a bug against firefox (needs packaging, whishlist?)
What does the support policy linked above mean for Firefox in Maverick? Is it about upgrading software only if it's vulnerably or about keeping in sync with the latest stable upstream release?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

That is the factoid from the official bot (ubottu) in #ubuntu on irc.freenode. It is default in Natty so will get packaged in the official repo eventually. That is the stable release so will most likely be the same version as is used in the official repos.

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