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Distro: Linux Mint Cinnamon

I use a different Browser and hence uninstalled firefox. But it still receives updates through the system, same with thunderbird. My upgrade manager flags them as security updates sometimes, so I install them. But are they actually necessary? Can I make my system filter them out when updating, or is that a bad idea?

Solution: run dpkg -l "*firef*" to find there were still firefox packages installed. Removed them. Hopefully did the trick.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

First make sure it's really not installed:

# in your terminal
dpkg -l "*firef*"
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Yep... the *-locale-en still was around for firefox and thunderbird. Thanks :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Start here OP.

You may have not uninstalled them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Did you uninstall through terminal or through the GUI? If through the GUI try using the command line.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

How did you uninstall firefox?

What different browser have you installed? How?