simple bug in Firefox preferencies - Advance Tab (bug simples nas Preferências do Firefox - Aba Avançado)

[JRonin]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

(Poor) English Version:

Bug in Firefox preferencies:

In " When finding Firefox updates: " , I've marked the option " Ask what to do" and some of the options, in that tab, had become disabled. Please, see the Screenshot included.

Versão em Português

Em "Ao encontrar atualizações do Firefox:", marquei a opção "Perguntar o que fazer" e algumas das demais opções, desta aba, tornaram-se desabilitadas. Favor, ver o Screenshot incluso.

Ubuntu release:

Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

Package version:

  Instalado: 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Candidato: 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Tabela de versão:
 *** 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

*** I hope that it helps... and sorry my poor english...

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Parthan SR (parth-technofreak)]

Thank you for taking your time to report this bug and help make Ubuntu better. Your bug description is not clear that we can't understand what you mean to be a bug. Do you mean that in Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Updates, the Firefox updates are disabled while the other two (Installed Add ons and Search Engines) are not disabled? Do you mean to say that when you had marked "Ask what to do" for Firefox updates, it becomes disabled the next time you check?

Please check out bug #263566 which reports of similar issue. If you can confirm whether you are reporting the same issue here, I can mark this bug to be a duplicate of the bug.

But, as an information, Firefox updates happen through the distributions package update mechanism and not through the Firefox's update option present in the Advanced Preferences. This is to ensure that an upstream update do not break the changes being done in Ubuntu, and hence updates to Firefox through Ubuntu's package mechanism are suggested.

[Parthan SR (parth-technofreak)]

Sorry, I meant "and hence updates to Firefox through Ubuntu's package mechanism are not suggested and disabled."

[JRonin (jronin)]

Yes. The bug reported in bug #263566 is what I tried to say.

Now, I understand that my bug description was not clear and I hope the next one be.

Thank you.