On Wed 27 Dec 2023 at 18:19:16 (+0000), Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2023-12-27 at 11:05 -0600, Mike McClain wrote: > > If I recall correctly, Firefox used to have a checkbox in the > > preferences to permit or deny auto updates. In this version 121.0 for > > the Raspberry PI, that's no longer so and I'm quite sure that FF > > updated itself without asking. > > Debian's Firefox is the latest ESR version, i.e. 115, not 121, so it > seems like you've not been talking about a Debian package but something > you originally download and installed from somewhere else e.g. from > Mozilla's site or installed some flatpack or something. That might > explain why it didn't play nicely with your Debian desktop and wants to > update itself to new versions. (Non-ESR versions don't get security > updates so I assume whoever built the software you installed wanted > users to keep up-to-date and included a mechanism to ensure that.)
It also raises the question of how FF managed to upgrade itself in the first place. Does this mean that the OP is running their browser from a root account? That seems very unwise to me. Or is this not really a Debian system at all? Cheers, David.
