All Products Community Forum

hi, I love supporting this independent browser - I know its not perfect but it does a great job of doing most things well.

However, and there is a big but. I can be in the middle of an investigation that requires sharing data to a new tab - on opening the tab I'm blocked from going further as Firefox needs to do an update! This is really infuriating. No update can be SO urgent that you stop me using the browser. This is the Microsoft mentality, and its wrong. Can you please investigate NOT forcing users to update their browser during session.

Matt.

Every 2 or 3 days, Thunderbird tells me it needs to be updated. I run the update but halfway through it stops and tells me that I have a newer version on my PC. Why can it not recognise that I am up to date?

Hi All, this question seems to come up on various forums, but I cannot find a definitive answer.

We run the Enterprise version of FF (140.7.0esr (32-bit)), the product installs and includes the scheduled task that checks for updates at a regular interval. This works, but the update only ever seems to be applied once the browser is launched.

According to the documentation there is the following setting:

Software\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox\AppAutoUpdate = 0x1 | 0x0

• If set to true, application updates are installed without user approval within Firefox.
• If set to false, application updates are downloaded but the user can choose when to install the update.

We have a number of users that do not frequently open FF and therefore our reporting shows that they are running an out of date version of the browser.

Has anyone managed to get this auto update mechanism to work without opening the browser? Is it even possible?

Thanks