Hi Rick, it's possible that the Firefox version is limited by your OS version. As a first check, are you reasonably up-to-date on Peppermint updates? Wikipedia lists a bunch of versions over the years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppermint_OS#Release_history

You currently have the Firefox version from your Ubuntu's distro. This version can only be updated via its OS software update and if your OS no longer is supported (reached EOL) then you need to switch to the Firefox version from the Mozilla server.

You can find the full installer of the current Firefox release (129.0.1) in all languages and all operating systems here:

• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/129.0.1/releasenotes/

Your personal data like bookmarks is stored in the Firefox profile folder, so you won't lose personal data when you reinstall or update Firefox, but make sure NOT to remove personal data when you uninstall Firefox as that will remove all Firefox profile folders and you lose your personal data.

• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data

thanks, jasher.

what do you mean by peppermint updates? the shield icon in tray says i'm totally updated, but i'm still on 113.0.2, and i'm pretty sure firefox is up to 120 or something, but that's firefox. sorry to be confounded. but please look at attached screen cap. really appreciate your reply... i don't remember upgrading cos it does it when the blue upgrade shield says to upgrade. i click on it but it says it's updated. or is that something else i'm upgrading. ubantu? gosh, i'm confused. i'm not as hip to Linux as i'd like to be, but at my age... jeez i kinda hate to admit it!

rick

ok, i might be getting somewhere. attached are screen caps of what i downloaded, what i'm seeing... can you tell me what icon to click on? don't mean to be a pain.

regards

Hi Rick, I'm a Windows user, so you are way ahead of me there.

If Firefox can't update itself using the regular method described in the following article, does your Peppermint OS package manager have a method to update it?

See: Update Firefox to the latest release

i'm trying, believe me. i followed instructions above and i see no install latest version... here's what i see when i click on the 3 lines then about firefox

again: thank you all

You need to copy the files in the tar.bz2 archive to an installation folder. If you are the only user then you can create a firefox folder in your home directory (~/firefox). That way you have write access and can easily update Firefox. See Install Firefox from Mozilla builds:

• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux

i am the only user. i have no other browsers on here. nothing microsoft if i could help it. ok, a friend installed mint, then just days later upgraded to peppermint 1.0. i can't really remember installing peppermint, download or disc, but mint was installed from homemade cd-r. then a few years later my friend died.

hate to be dumb but can anyone tell me WHERE the linux or peppermint folder SHOULD be on this computer? here's another screen cap. used to be so ez!

forgive me please... again.

rh

perhaps i should add the hp laptop is one bought from a guy who installs Linux on computers for a living, strips all MS stuff off

oh gosh. actually it is a Dell

Could you check whether a policy is disabling updating in your Firefox. To do that, type or paste about:policies in the address bar and press Enter or Return. Normally you see

Active

The Enterprise Policies service is inactive.

Does yours list anything related to updating?

If you really have Peppermint 1 then your OS is from 2010 and thus very outdated and no longer supported with updates.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppermint_OS

I doubt it is Peppermint 1.0 as one may not even be able to run relatively recent Firefox versions let alone get support that long with OS updates with minimum required package updates (for Firefox to run) including a more current version like Firefox 113.0.2 released last year on on May 23, 2023. Especially since there has been at least 9-10 Peppermint OS releases since.

There is Peppermint 10 released Dec 18, 2019 and Peppermint 9 released Jan 2, 2019 which is pretty close to the 5-6 years ago mentioned in OP. https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=peppermint

Yes I realize the screenshot in OP does say Peppermint 1.0 yet why would one install the already rather old Peppermint 1.0 over say the more current Peppermint 9 or 10 some 5 or 6 years ago.

Note that it also says Ubuntu in the user agent while more recent Peppermint releases appear to be based on Debian.

well, if it wasn't updating it said it was. honestly. wish i'd been more alert. or just knew more about it. but i guess i wasn't. but it said it was updating. at the ubantu site it said it's checks for upgrades every day. i've been out of date since may '23!

o well. i guess it's windows, here i come again. win 11.

thanx for efforts.