Comments on: How to: Remove “Your browser has been updated and needs to be restarted”

By: wibi

wibi — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:05:07 +0000

just Disable “Ubuntu Firefox Modification” extension….and then restart…..

By: nireve

nireve — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:11:20 +0000

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.

By: Darin

Darin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:02:59 +0000

Worked for me. Thanks for helping me get rid of that annoying message after I updated to 3.0.8!

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:16:56 +0000

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!

By: David Karr

David Karr — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:06:25 +0000

Alternatively, just putting a comment before the block saying to make sure to use “–” instead of “-” would do.

By: David Karr

David Karr — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:05:00 +0000

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?

By: Sajid Iqbal

Sajid Iqbal — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:16:49 +0000

@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.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:40:21 +0000

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