How to update Firefox Browser?

[Linares]

The Firefox of my Mageia has become obsolete in version 78, which is incompatible with some new features such as the .webp format.

I have entered the software manager to update it, but no later versions appear. How can I update it?

[doktor5000]

You don't mention which Mageia release you're using ?
For Mageia 8, you can update easily to 102.4 which is pretty current.

For Mageia 7, it's recommended to migrate to a supported Mageia release. Although you could still download Firefox directly from Mozilla (e.g. https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/linux/ )
extract it in your home folder and run it from there, which also allows updates as your regular user. But it would also only be available for that one user.

[sturmvogel]

I have entered the software manager to update it, but no later versions appear. How can I update it?

You got told several times in different threads that you are using an unsupported Mageia 7 which is EOL since June 2021. No updates. No security fixes. No support.

You should strongly consider to buy a SSD for 50-100€ and install an actual and supported Mageia version. All your HDD/SSD space problems (countless threads from you) will be gone and you are using an actual, secure, supported, fixed and up to date distribution...

[doktor5000]

For now, the drive is in my cloud, but try the browser install in the script folder.

[morgano]

@ Linares, as you already use Flatpak (other thread) you can easily install flatpak Firefox. It may not operate as fluent as a directly installed, for me in mga8 flatpak firefox videos were slow until a half year ago but works good now. Maybe celebrate mga9 when it comes with a SSD drive?

@ csablak, I dont understand what you want to do.

[csablak]

For now, it is in my own Google cloud, but there is a script available there, which if you download and run, it will download firefox, Vivaldi, Opera, Yandex or Microsoft Edge browsers for you, according to your choice.

[sturmvogel]

I wouldn't use a dubious script to download a browser and bypass the inbuilt update mechanism.
It is never a good idea to trust a "script" from gdrive as you should download and install browsers only directly from the manufacturer site. No additional "scripts" are needed.

[csablak]

This is not gdrive scrip, I wrote it, I just store it there. Bash, so you can check it out.
Unfortunately, Mageia does not have a wide selection of browsers.

[sturmvogel]

Unfortunately, Mageia does not have a wide selection of browsers.

Please stop spreading false informations.

Mageia ships following browsers:
chromium
dillo
elinks
epiphany
falkon
firefox
konqueror
links
linkx
lynx
midori
netsurf
otter-browser
surf


Your "browser-selection" is barely shipped by any linux distribution....
Microsoft-edge-browser -> only shipped by PCLinuxOS
Yandex -> only shipped by ALT Linux
Vivaldi -> only shipped by Arch Linux, Solus, PCLinuxOS

And again: Never trust a self written script (by an unknown guy) to download and update a browser if you can get the browser directly from trustworthy download sites from the developers!

And i would call your script kind of malicious as it forcefully removes the secure Firefox version delivered by the linux distribution. It's easy to abuse this script by exchanging the download URLs against a malicious one by you. New linux users won't be able to understand your script and what it really is doing. Nor would they check the conent of your script. So the attack factor by using such scripts downloaded from an unknown guy from gdrive without checksums or any kind of verification is high.

[csablak]

Thanks.
If you had taken the trouble, you would have seen that it takes browsers from the original page. Not from a 3rd party.
Unknown guy. True, but what if I make an rpm file out of it? On the link you can find the programs packed by me in the rpm directory, which are not available in the official repositories.
Then they are obviously trash too.
And with this force, all android apks must also be discarded, because unknown people create android apk packages, which then end up on Google Play. They do not run under a well-known brand name. Only Google as a market brings them together.
Of the browsers you listed, only two can be used for anything.
It does not matter. You don't need to use it and that's all, but let's not mess with the other one. There is no guarantee for any Linux and the programs in it.
Anyway, I put 801 viruses and spyware in the 362 line.
For my part, I closed the topic.

[morgano]

For others reading this, we have a wiki page on how to install from various sources in various ways and a bit on security about that. For example check out Flatpak and Appimage.

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Ways_to_install_programs

[doktor5000]

For now, it is in my own Google cloud, but there is a script available there, which if you download and run, it will download firefox, Vivaldi, Opera, Yandex or Microsoft Edge browsers for you, according to your choice.

If you want to share your script, please either add it here as attachment or post the relevant section in a code block.

Apart from that I don't think it's necessary to use a script to download and extract a browser.

[Linares]

Many thanks friends. Of the various options that you proposed to me here, I finally opted for Flatpak. The truth is that, with this method, it has been very easy to update. Always grateful to this forum.