Update: There are still some notable flaws in this pack­age. Var­i­ous com­po­nents do not func­tion, most impor­tantly the Pref­er­ences (Edit -> Pref­er­ences) but also var­i­ous XUL pack­age instal­la­tion ele­ments. Pro­ceed with caution.

It appears they’ve fixed the seg­fault prob­lem I wrote about a few days ago, because they’ve changed the ver­sion num­ber (heh, and pre­sum­ably a few other things) and now it works fine. Stan­dard Synap­tic upgrade should do the trick nicely. This, inci­den­tally, will take you to the lat­est Fire­fox ver­sion (1.0.6 at time of writ­ing) as opposed to (I think) 1.0.4 in the last (seg­fault­ing) release. For the first time in a while, the repos­i­tory is actu­ally up to date with Firefox’s fre­netic release cycle!

Not that it mat­ters, really… none of the bugs reported have been rated crit­i­cal, or the IT press would have had a field day with it. Besides, the only rea­son we’re not see­ing the same cycle with IE is that they appear to have tem­porar­ily given up, and now only seem to roll out updates with oper­at­ing sys­tem patches (prob­a­bly not much less reg­u­lar, but, with Win­dows now strongly encour­ag­ing users to allow auto updat­ing, far less not­i­ca­ble). I’m still brows­ing happy on Firefox.