I am surprised to see that Firefox version 129.0.1 is currently being distributed with openSUSE Tumbleweed, as 129.0.2 was previously released by Mozilla, followed by 130.0.0, then followed by 130.0.1. There are important security updates in some of these new versions.
Is it simply a matter of openSUSE maintainers not having enough time to make the needed builds? Or is there another issue?
I do see the 130.0.1 build here: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/, so I’m confused as to why this update doesn’t seem to be getting pushed to Tumbleweed users. Is there something simply wrong with my installation?
When I used Linux Mint, I simply used Mozilla’s PPA to get the latest Firefox releases, as I consider having an up-to-date web browser to be essential. Is there a similar technique for openSUSE?
By following and checking OBS, the SR for Firefox 130.0.1 into factory happened 4 hours ago. So Firefox should be updated in one of the next Tumbleweed snapshots…
When I used Linux Mint, I simply used Mozilla’s PPA to get the latest Firefox releases, as I consider having an up-to-date web browser to be essential. Is there a similar technique for openSUSE?
But that is then NOT the one tested with Tumbleweed in QA.
I assume several people have different reasons for running Tumbleweed (or any other distribution), but then installing all sorts of software outside the distribution can come with drawbacks.
Yes, but you could warn them. You should be aware of the fact that people often simply follow advice on forums they trust. Not only the OP here, but others that find this using a search engine.
To maintain the trustworthiness of the forums, warnings belong to advice that may lure people into dead alleys, etc.
But people should also be (made) aware of the consequences (of their doing or not-doing) so that they can tell whether they can handle those consequences or not.
We use the Flatpak version of FF (use Discover app to find it).
It’s at 130.0.1. Always up do date. Why wait?
( Sidenote: it’s not our primary browser. )
There is no danger in using mozilla’s version of firefox. People may do as they wish.
Warning about download Firefox from Mozilla’s FTP? No reason to do so.
Do you also want me to warn people about using the internet? I see no reason to warn people about downloading firefox from mozilla.
To both of you: The distro version of firefox is almost always behind the official mozilla release. Why don’t you warn people about the potential security vulnerabilities of using the repo version (almost always behind) the official version of firefox.
So you see the argument goes both ways. I will debate this matter no further as it is off topic.
Yes and 131.0 will be realeased from mozilla probably within the next 2 days. However the repo version won’t get updated to 131.0 until the mozilla realease of 132.0 is almost out.
There’s probably one step I would add, and that’s to move the extracted files from the downloaded compressed tarball to a different location before running Firefox. I’m not the most knowledgeable at Linux folder conventions, but I think anywhere is fine (some people create subfolders in ~/.var, but I prefer to just create a new subfolder in home). Feedback is welcome.
I can’t recall the reason I didn’t follow your steps in Linux Mint, and I don’t remember why I chose to use Mozilla’s PPA instead. Maybe I (perhaps mistakenly) thought the updater in About Firefox wouldn’t work for some reason? Or maybe just a simple way to get the latest version directly from Mozilla? Too long ago to remember.
@snoopy Bear in mind that the Mozilla products are maintained by one person, plus the resources to build are extensive… It all depends on what the update achieves as well, see the changes.