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I'd guess reasonably confidently that the majority of firefox users, are on window or mac, got firefox from the web, have auto updates enabled, and are already on 126 (they've had a week to update at this point).

With the exception of LTS releases, if you haven't got firefox 126 yet because you're on a "stable" package manager, I'd encourage you to promptly download firefox from mozilla.org (which will come with auto-updates) and uninstall your package managers insecure version. Given the state of the web and software security web browsers aren't something you should be delaying updating by a week.




>With the exception of LTS releases, if you haven't got firefox 126 yet because you're on a "stable" package manager, I'd encourage you to promptly download firefox from mozilla.org (which will come with auto-updates) and uninstall your package managers insecure version.

Which distros have this problem? AFAIK debian-based distros (eg. debian, ubuntu) package firefox ESR which is kept up to date with security patches.


At one point I realized Arch's firefox was greater than a week out of date and I promptly did exactly that. I don't know if it was a regular occurrence or something weird with that release though.


Nixos have this problem a bit. I didn't rebuild my system in a while and my Firefox is really old at this point. Well, time to update my system.




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