Firefox isn't upgraded on Debian: its ESR has 1.5 years old, ensuring it being discarded. How to ask a global upgrade from Debian or Mozilla team?
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On my Debian 12 system, installed by default with a Firefox browser managed by Debian in terms of
It's normal:
I have a [
apt
updates and upgrades, I went on Slack web site and learned that my Firefox version wasn't supported anymore since September 2024, 1st.


115.15.0esr
version of September 3rd, 2024 considering the security fixes](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-41/) ,
but of July, 2023, considering its major version 115
.
When the current release of Firefox on its downloading page is 130.x
or more.
I have three choices:
1. Like most users, abandon Firefox and go to Chrome.
2. Uninstall my Firefox instance, and follow the [support mozilla link ](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux) , hoping that it will work, and that I won't loose all my favorites and customization.
Here is the procedure they suggest to use to perform this:
> To install the .deb package through the APT repository, do the
> following:
>
> 1. Create a directory to store APT repository keys if it doesn't exist:
>
> sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
>
> 2. Import the Mozilla APT repository signing key:
>
> wget -q https://packages.mozilla.org/apt/repo-signing-key.gpg -O- |
> sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/packages.mozilla.org.asc > /dev/null
> If you do not have wget installed, you can install it with: sudo apt-get install wget
>
>3. The fingerprint should be 35BAA0B33E9EB396F59CA838C0BA5CE6DC6315A3
. You may check it with the
> following command:
>
> gpg -n -q --import --import-options import-show /etc/apt/keyrings/packages.mozilla.org.asc | awk '/pub/{getline; gsub(/^ +| +$/,""); if($0 =="35BAA0B33E9EB396F59CA838C0BA5CE6DC6315A3") print "\nThe key fingerprint matches ("$0").\n"; else print "\nVerification failed: the fingerprint ("$0") does not match the expected one.\n"}'
>
> 4. Next, add the
> Mozilla APT repository to your sources list:
>
> echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/packages.mozilla.org.asc] https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozilla.list > /dev/null
>
>5. Configure APT to prioritize packages from the Mozilla repository:
>
> echo '
> Package: *
> Pin: origin packages.mozilla.org
> Pin-Priority: 1000 ' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla
>
> 6. Update your package list, and install the Firefox .deb package:
>
> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox
>
> **Set up different languages in Firefox with .deb files**
>
> For those of you who would like to use Firefox in a different language than American English, we have also created .deb packages containing the Firefox language packs. To install a specific language pack, replace fr in the example below with the desired language code:
>
> sudo apt-get install firefox-l10n-fr
>
> To list all the available language packs, you can use this command after adding the Mozilla APT repository and running sudo apt-get update:
>
> apt-cache search firefox-l10n
>
Even if I can process these commands, most of Debian users using Firefox won't know that they are available or dare attempt to run them, keeping an obsolete and less and less usable version of their browser.
3. So, for Debian 12 users' sake, it seems important to me that this version changes.
I'd like to ask for an upgrade of the Firefox major version delivered through the classical apt-get dist-upgrade
install to all Debian 12 users, for convenience.
But how and of whom should I ask that?
- Of the Debian team? Following which link?
- Or of the Mozilla Foundation, in case it's them who are delivering what to install to a Debian process that is passive?
Thanks! It looks difficult to keep things like they are.
Having an obsolete Browser installed by default on Debian 12 is not good.
Asked by Marc Le Bihan
(2353 rep)
Sep 22, 2024, 04:42 AM
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