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Firefox doesn't regonise it's own update

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As shown in the attached screenshot, being on any Mozilla page, or things like google Maps always say I'm not running the latest version. At the moment I am, however, running version 42.0 (which also shows in the screenshot). When checking for updates, Firefox itself says it is up to date. (OS: Windows10

ps. Your 'educated guess' isn't that educated, says i'm running 19.0 on a Windows7.

As shown in the attached screenshot, being on any Mozilla page, or things like google Maps always say I'm not running the latest version. At the moment I am, however, running version 42.0 (which also shows in the screenshot). When checking for updates, Firefox itself says it is up to date. (OS: Windows10 ps. Your 'educated guess' isn't that educated, says i'm running 19.0 on a Windows7.

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Your User Agent as you can see in More System Details on right of post Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-reset-default-user-agent-firefox

There are some extensions that can modify useragent also.

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This sitetimmie_1606 said

As shown in the attached screenshot, [...]

http://i.imgur.com/ZdY555M.png

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Chosen Solution

Your User Agent as you can see in More System Details on right of post Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-reset-default-user-agent-firefox

There are some extensions that can modify useragent also.

Modified by James

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Nice! This solved my problem. Thanks