Upgrade to Firefox 61.0

[David F.]

Firefox 61.0 was released on June 26th (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/61.0/releasenotes/) and includes a variety of security fixes. We should ship it to users as soon as possible.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[fdsafasd (tfn50)]

Why is this taking so long?

The new version 61.0 have fixed 3 "CRITICAL" impact security problems and 5 "HIGH" impact security problems as compared with the old version 60.0.2 which is the latest in the Ubuntu repositories.
Source: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-15/
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=firefox

[David F. (malteworld)]

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-security/+archive/ubuntu/ppa just published a package for v61.0.

[mkurz (matthias.kurz)]

How long will it take until this hits the "stable" repositories?

[David F. (malteworld)]

@mkurz: That won't happen. Ubuntu's "stable" repositories are never updated after the original release. Security updates updates are shipped to "[release]-security" and general updates to "[release]-update".

In my experience it takes 2–4 days for packages from the Mozilla Security PPA to appear in the main "security" and "updates" repositories.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Now available in -updates and -security.