[Solved]Firefox being managed by your organization.

[rmr]

Today I went to update my Firefox, only to find that it is struck in Version 76.0.1 (64-bit), whereas, Latest stable is 78. Also I cannot update firefox as it is managed by "my Organization".

about:policies says below:

DisableAppUpdate true

Why this is so and why I am not allowed to update to latest stable?

[Update]

Change the Repo location to mxrepo.com

[Jerry3904]

We prefer to package it ourselves to be able to check for problems before users start installing it. We are usually only a day or two behind the release, and it came through a couple of days ago. I have it running in MX-19.2 with no action on my part:

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└─> apt policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 78.0.1~mozillabinaries-1mx19+1
  Candidate: 78.0.1~mozillabinaries-1mx19+1
  Version table:
 *** 78.0.1~mozillabinaries-1mx19+1 500
        500 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

What version of MX are you running? Do you do standard updates?

If you want to go on your own, uninstall firefox and then download directly from the site.

[rmr]

Hello Jerry3904,

I am running MX 19.2 and I usually don't download from the sites, if I get from package managers.

However According to this output, 76.0.1 is latest.

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$ sudo apt-get install firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
firefox is already the newest version (76.0.1~mozillabinaries-1mx19+1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[Jerry3904]

Please post the output of Quick Systems Info in the menu, just paste it in.

[rmr]

Please post the output of Quick Systems Info in the menu, just paste it in.

Hello, as you requested, I am pasting output of Quick Systems

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System:    Host: mx Kernel: 5.6.0-2-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.6.0-2-amd64 
           root=UUID=db286e13-3225-4407-b079-b6ff0c251340 ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
           Distro: MX-19.2_ahs_x64 patito feo May 31  2020 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15g-br0xx v: Type1ProductConfigId 
           serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: HP model: 832B v: 23.78 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.65 date: 12/06/2019 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT1 charge: 33.7 Wh condition: 33.7/41.6 Wh (81%) volts: 16.6/14.6 
           model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-7200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake 
           family: 6 model-id: 8E (142) stepping: 9 microcode: D6 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 21599 
           Speed: 3100 MHz min/max: 400/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3100 2: 3100 3: 3100 
           4: 3100 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Vulnerable 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass 
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, 
           STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 620 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:5916 
           Device-2: AMD Sun XT [Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8690M / R5 M330 / M430]
           vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 1002:6660 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: ati,modesetting,radeon unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
           resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.7 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:9d71 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.6.0-2-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
           vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 02:00.0 
           chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel 
           port: 3000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 8086:24fb 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 69.64 GiB (7.5%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172 size: 931.51 GiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> 
           rev: RSM8 temp: 39 C scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 199.99 GiB size: 195.85 GiB (97.93%) used: 7.36 GiB (3.8%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 10 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mx-pkg.mirror.net.in/MX-Linux/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           2: deb http://mx-pkg.mirror.net.in/MX-Linux/mx/repo/ buster ahs
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main
Info:      Processes: 210 Uptime: 3h 35m Memory: 3.83 GiB used: 1.05 GiB (27.5%) Init: SysVinit 
           v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
           running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36 

[Jerry3904]

The mirror you are using was just updated an hour ago, so can you paste back the output of this command as regular user.

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apt policy firefox

Sometimes large packages can take a day or two to get to all mirrors. If it still is not up to date, then please use MX Repo Manager to change to another mirror. Temporarily, you could switch to mxrepo.com.

[rmr]

Hello, as you requested, I am pasting output of apt policy firefox

$ apt policy firefox
firefox:
Installed: 76.0.1~mozillabinaries-1mx19+1
Candidate: 76.0.1~mozillabinaries-1mx19+1
Version table:
*** 76.0.1~mozillabinaries-1mx19+1 500
500 http://mx-pkg.mirror.net.in/MX-Linux/mx/repo buster/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Jerry3904]

Thanks. Then please use MX Repo Manager and change to another. Like I said, I use United States Salt Lake City (Utah) and get the current version.

[rmr]

I am changing location. Will let you know if problem is resolved.

[Update]
Issue is resolved. Now I am on Firefox78