Ubuntu
ubuntu-release-upgrader package

  1. Bug #1174007
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1174007

Revision history for this message
skierpage (skierpage) wrote :

The exact same thing happens with the 13.04 -> 13.10 updater. I already had Firefox running. From the Release Notes window, clicking
  To see what's new in this release, visit:
   http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/features
brings up same alert about Chromium, and starts a new Firefox window running as root.

This also happens when you click the other links in the Release Notes window, e.g. "community/participate".