thanks for the informative article

Posted Aug 21, 2025 13:59 UTC (Thu) by jzb (editor, #7867)
In reply to: thanks for the informative article by alison
Parent article: Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie

If you're getting Firefox ESR from the Debian repositories, then it is updated by the Debian packagers with a number of patches applied. You can examine the patches applied to various versions here: https://sources.debian.org/patches/firefox-esr/.

The new ML features postdate Firefox 128, I believe, so it's unclear right now if they'll turn those off or not. I wouldn't be surprised if they do... If you want current-ish Firefox without some of the AI-type stuff, you might check out LibreWolf or other forks.

thanks for the informative article

Posted Aug 22, 2025 4:52 UTC (Fri) by alison (subscriber, #63752) [Link] (1 responses)

While Debian users will indeed notice Firefox package updates, at times I've noticed that Firefox restarts itself when I don't recall a recent update. Perhaps some auto-installed security fix has arrived from Debian.

thanks for the informative article

Posted Aug 29, 2025 13:17 UTC (Fri) by MKesper (subscriber, #38539) [Link]

There is an "unattended-upgrades" package that can update packages for you for security reasons.
It's configurable and can also be disabled, if you decide to do so.
I never saw Firefox doing a restart itself, though. It displays a message to restart it myself to be able to continue browsing.

https://packages.debian.org/trixie/unattended-upgrades