Query about parasitic firefox file

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 06:48:59 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>On 24/03/2018, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:09:27 +0000, Colin Law wrote:  
>>>Possibly all updates *include* security updates, but they may also
>>>include feature changes which some users may like, others may hate.  
>>
>> If a new release of Firefox should not fix a security issue, I doubt
>> that Ubuntu packagers would provide a Firefox package update, nor for
>> an Ubuntu LTS release, neither for a non-LTS release. Note, Firefox
>> is in main! If it would make sense, the packagers, respl. the
>> security team most likely would patch an older release of Firefox,
>> instead of upgrading to a new release. If Ubuntu provides an update
>> to a newer version of Firefox, the update not just "possibly"
>> includes a security update, the one and only reason much likely is
>> security only.
>>
>>  
>
>As published at
>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/57.0/releasenotes/
>(Note - it is currently at v59)
>
>"
>
>57.0
>Firefox Release

Even from the Mozilla homepage you are ignorant quoting the wrong link.
How about "Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 57", see 

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/

In regards to Firefox and for security reasons only, Ubuntu is a rolling
release:

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3599-1/
https://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/firefox