On Fri, 2021-12-10 at 15:45 +0000, piorunz wrote: > On 10/12/2021 15:27, Tixy wrote: > > > Will Firefox be able to update itself with security updates? > > One HowTo on the web I saw said to change permissions of files > > extracted from the tarball to allow this, (using chmod 755). Though to > > me, it seems that wouldn't help without changing the owner too, which > > I've done (to my user). Will see how things go on the next ESR release. > > For me it won't work, as I put these files as root deliberately, and I > run firefox executable in firejail. Firefox cannot modify anything apart > from it's own .mozilla folder and Downloads folder. I am happy to > redownload manually when there is an update from Mozilla.
And I guess Firefox will let you know there's a new version, time will tell. I mainly wanted to mention this issue in case other people follow your recipe and don't consider updates. Now they'll know from our discussion :-) -- Tixy
