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The updater - that runs upon installation - ran automatically earlier and the process was reasonably quick and completely painless. I think I even saw updates with "kernel" in their filename, something that would have frightened me if I'd had time to think about it beforehand. Whatever requirements/dependencies that needed to be addressed... were - and without any input on my part other than letting the updater do its thing. It seems that linux has truly become the OS that anyone can use without fear even if they aren't exactly tech-savy.

One thing that I did notice that I don't understand is that it updated Firefox (several of the filenames had Firefox in their title) to version 3.0.13, but according to Firefox their current linux version is 3.5.2. Why didn't the updater upgrade FF to the newest version on my system?

Thanks,
Driver

Driver wrote:The updater - that runs upon installation - ran automatically earlier and the process was reasonably quick and completely painless. I think I even saw updates with "kernel" in their filename, something that would have frightened me if I'd had time to think about it beforehand. Whatever requirements/dependencies that needed to be addressed... were - and without any input on my part other than letting the updater do its thing. It seems that linux has truly become the OS that anyone can use without fear even if they aren't exactly tech-savy.

One thing that I did notice that I don't understand is that it updated Firefox (several of the filenames had Firefox in their title) to version 3.0.13, but according to Firefox their current linux version is 3.5.2. Why didn't the updater upgrade FF to the newest version on my system?

Thanks,
Driver

The updating system basically saw that there was an update available through the FF repos so all it did was deployed it to your system. Next time go through a read all of the items that are on the list to be updated. That way you will have an idea of will be updated & what won't so that you can remove what you don't want to be updated for example in this case "Firefox"!!

I haved used FF 3.5.X on 4 different platforms, I still don't think it's as stable as you would like. The upgrades are minor enough that sticking 3.0.X is probably a safe bet

FF3.5 and 3.6alpha are in synaptic repos.You can enable the third-party for FF from ubuntu-tweak.