How to: Remove “Your browser has been updated and needs to be restarted”
2 days earlier I updated my Firefox using Ubuntu Updated Manager. All went fine except Firefox, It started teasing me with an error stripe citing “Your browser has been updated and needs to be restarted”. Dismissing it did’nt work as it kept appearing & disturbing me every now than. I googled the problem & landed at bug tracking site Launchpad. This bug was already reported there, though not sorted out. Going by comments I read Savvas Radevic’s comment temporary solution. The solution was basically uninstalling & re-installing the Firefox. I tried it and fotunately it worked for me. If you are getting this error too you can try the solution given below:
Firefox menu > File > Quit
Then execute in terminal:
sudo killall -9 -r firefox
sudo apt-get purge firefox firefox-3.0 ubufox
sudo apt-get install –reinstall firefox firefox-3.0 firefox-3.0-gnome-support
When it’s done, try run firefox
I hope it works.
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Hi,
Thanks for the tip. Although when I ran the command :
sudo apt-get install –reinstall firefox firefox-3.0 firefox-3.0-gnome-support
It gave me :
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package reinstall
So I ended up reinstalling Firefox through Add/Remove in the Applications menu.
ps. I’m on Ubuntu 8.10
@mike: Sorry for inconvenience caused. There are actually double –(minus) signs in front of reinstall. The blog theme(or may be font) parsed it to single one. Please use double minus signs and it will be fine.
I had the same problem, and I just removed “-reinstall” from the command line and it appeared to work. What would have been the impact of doing that?
If your blog theme is replacing “–” with “-”, then perhaps you should escape either or both of the dashes with backslashes?
Alternatively, just putting a comment before the block saying to make sure to use “–” instead of “-” would do.
Worked great for me! That message had been annoying me to no end and it didn’t look like it was ever going to be fixed.
Thanks!
Worked for me. Thanks for helping me get rid of that annoying message after I updated to 3.0.8!
Thank you, excelent solution.
you can use just:
sudo apt-get install firefox firefox-3.0 firefox-3.0-gnome-support
Have a nice day.
just Disable “Ubuntu Firefox Modification” extension….and then restart…..