![]() ![]() If there are updates you’ll be presented with a window like this: ![]() In fact, it should automatically launch and check for all your system software after you’ve been logged in for a few minutes. The answer is that Ubuntu Linux software update tool knows. Which leads to the question of how you know if there’s an update available. Firefox for Linux doesn’t do that, because you can see it’s on version 70.0.1 but the latest version is up to 72. Here’s where the Firefox development team is a bit lazy in just about every other Web browser going to the About screen will fire off a quick check to see if it’s the latest version and indicate if there’s an available update or not. ![]() There’s a Help submenu with a variety of interesting options and choices:Ĭhoose the last of the options, About Firefox, and it’ll show you the current version: This is most easily done by going to the ‘hamburger menu’ and choosing “Help” from near the bottom: First off, let’s figure out what version of Firefox you’re running. Luckily I can take you through the steps with Firefox for Linux because I too have an Ubuntu Linux system that needed an update too! Use the wrong one and it’ll blissfully act as if there aren’t any updates available, leaving your system vulnerable. What’s confusing about Linux is that sometimes you update software from within the software itself, while other times it’s the system software update tool that is going to do the work. If you’re curious, Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, has a security advisory page with all known threats and which version of Firefox fixes ’em too. Even American Military News had a piece encouraging readers to “update their browser immediately”. Not only that, but in early January, 2020, no less a group than US Homeland Security issued an update warning to all Firefox users about an active exploit. As a big, complex program, it’s perhaps more vulnerable than some of the other apps on your Linux system. ![]() You’re smart for wanting to keep all your software updated, particularly Firefox. ![]()
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