[ubuntu-users] Ubuntu 9.04 and Firefox browser

[Ted Hilts]

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
>> ...then I realized that my present Ubuntu 
>> upgrade is 8.04 up from 7.10 and I have received no automatic upgrade 
>> yet to 9.04. Is 9.04 considered a stable release and if so why would my 
>> Ubuntu 8.04 not be automatically upgraded?
>>     
>
> Just a shot in the dark: 8.04 is an "LTS" release, so the update
> manager probably is set to upgrade only to the next LTS (which will
> probably be 10.04). You can have a look under
> System->Administration->Softawre Sources, under the tab "Updates", at
> the bottom you can select if you want to be notified of ach of every
> release (every 6 months), or only LTS releases. Make sure that the
> combo box is set to "Normal Releases", then launch the update manager
> (or just a few hours or a day, for it to automatically trigger), and it
> should do thje trick I would think...
>
> Note that if you have 8.04, you will not be able/offered to upgrade to
> 9.04. YOu will have to upgrade to 8.10 first, then to 9.04. The upgrade
> mechanism can only handle shifts from one version to the next, or one
> LTS to the next LTS.
>
> --
> Vince
>
>   
Thanks Vince but,

then where are all the usual ad-ons associated with the Firefox browser 
or maybe they  just were not on the DVD I obtained from the Ubuntu user 
magazine.  Firefox was installed. Also, I was asked by the 9.04 system 
if I wanted to update files and so I did do some kind an update to this 
9.04 which apparently only brought some of the files up-to-date. So my 
guess is if the files were not there to start with they would not be 
updated. The designation of 9.04 did not change as near as I could see 
so it was not an upgrade. I'll have to look at that.  Also, I am still 
puzzled about the ad-ons. Does anyone know for sure if 9.04 Firefox can 
access the full list of add-ons becasue I had some kind of problem.

 It's very difficult working on the SUN Virtual Box when you can't 
enlarge the box dimensions to sufficiently see the print and the cursor 
I use is VNC and the SUN VB cursor jumps all over the place so it takes 
forever (literally)  to position the cursor. Maybe that's my whole problem.

Thanks, the input I got was valuable -- Ted Hilts