On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 03:01:07PM -0500, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 12/27/23, Tixy <t...@yxit.co.uk> 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. > >
All bets are off ... not Debian, potentially <snip> > > Something still doesn't sound right. I've got that 121 off the Mozilla > website. It has to wait for my intervention. It complains that it does > not have permission to install each progressive update. In my beady > little brain, that's how it should be for safety's sake. > Standard disclaimers apply: other people and distributions do things differently. Raspberry Pi OS != Debian. > That said, I know that there are circumstances where the User can only > untar/install that outside package under something like > /home/user/(.)local. Number One reason would be the User does not have > any admin/root permissions. > > If that was the case, Mozilla would probably be able to silently run > all the updates it wants in the background. If that tar file was > untarred as root instead, Mozilla... can't touch this. > How do you know? You don't control what's provided ... in this instance, you are probably right. > The only other thing I can think of, and that I hate to have to type, > is virus so I hope it's "just" something about the permissions level > when the package is installed. Permissions would explain one part of > what happened. I'm going to respond to the other part in a few.. That > toolbar thing is a party of two........ > Virus unlikely - flatpak / snap or any other packaging for Mozilla could do anything ... I suspect it's just an artefact of downloading the Mozilla site version rather than the Debian ESR version. > Cindy :) > -- All the very best, as ever, Andy > Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA > * runs with birdseed * >
