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Could you please disable Update Check with fake notification "Update Available - download now"?

Thank you!

While using Debian 12 on two workstations running version 136 the "update available" would appear on the screen and remain on the screen with no option to update or cancel.

Because this happened on 2 Debian 12 workstations, i would like to know if this is a known problem as I updated 139.01 an the issue continues.

You will noticed in the screen capture update available has no options other than "learn more"

I keep getting a small box that appears in the upper right corner of my yahoo email home screen that says it is from Firefox and asks if I want to upgrade to the latest version of firefox. If so click here and the upgrade will be installed and your open website connections will still be open once it has been accomplished.

I'm nervous about just believing anything that is presented or pitched to me on the internet.

Upon accessing the firefox website just now under upgrades it says that upgrades to firefox will be made automatically as appropriate, but if I want to manually install an upgrade there is a way to do it.

• • • Is the small box offering to upgrade my firefox browser actually from firefox? Or some scammer?

I'm thinking that if upgrades are done automatically, why would I get this box asking me if I want to install the latest upgrade?

I've always specified in settings that I want to be notified of updates so I can choose whether and when to apply them (rather than have them applied automatically), but I periodically get the message I've attached here, which inconveniently wipes out everything on my Private Browsing page. How do I stop this?

I am repeatedly getting this pop up window after starting my computer and selecting the Firefox icon in the toolbar to start the browser. When using the Firefox browser I always update Firefox when prompted, so it should be the latest version, unlike what it states in the popup window. If I want to use the browser, I have to sign in to the browser and sync my data and I have to re load all my tabs from my history. It is time consuming to the point where my colleagues who were using Firefox have uninstalled Firefox and are now using a different browser. I could do the same...but I want a solution. I'm using Windows 11.

The latest update said something about browsing changes and shows a box in the address bar. I see nothing of the kind and, frankly, none of the myriad of updates has ever changed anything in my browser. What might be the problem? Thank you.

Why is there constant updates?. It seems like everyday there is one and it's annoying. The updates seem to add like stupid shopping, having 80 tabs open and stupid crap like that. I am beginning to think Microsoft's Edge browser is the best even though it's a terrible browser. Also given the fact that Mozilla now wants to sell our browsing history to advertisers. Mozilla has decided privacy is no longer important now by selling our info for targeted ads. Seems like you want to collect as much of what sites we visit plus more telemetry to spy on us. If you piss enough people off, then they and myself are going to switch browsers. You have the nerve to ask for donations only to turn around and sell our information.

I had to restore to install last update, May 25, 2025, and turn off auto update, because it is not compatible with GVoice. Or other G anything.

Specifically, it took 20 min. each time with all the stupid verification, for which I needed more verification, and when I did finally access G Voice, I could nor press the lock before the URL, nor any other way to enable Permissions, for sound and mic, which was now all, by default, shut off. I had to use GVoice to reach my SIM provider to find out why I showed plenty of Gigs left on my plan, yet no service for 48 hrs.

The whole verification hassle opens us up to more hacking, not less, as we get desperate, waiting to get the codes in the best of times. Also, phones often do not work, or are too slow to get the code in time. And I always have to do all this in a library parking lot, risking spying, because phone signal/internet rarely reaches us in rural areas, or is corrupted, with greedy AI taking up all the bandwidth. And cable is $50K investment, and does not work when the power is off, which due to Pacific storms, is about a total of 3 months a year. I dread having to go online for anything, and will not update Firefox until I hear some encouraging news.

Thank you all, this is still the best, lightweight browser. And at least I have people here to give me advice!

I have noticed that Firefox has been getting too many updates recently...even as much as 2 updates this week alone. Frankly i'm sick of getting the green icons and pop-ups in the upper right corner. Is there a way in about:blank codes to turn off these stealth downloading behaviour and prompt pop-ups to restart the browser and let me just manually do it in settings when i want to but without notifications ?

Hallo zusammen, ich benötige dringend Unterstützung bezüglich des Standardprofils in Firefox. Bei einigen Mitarbeitern wird jeden Tag nach dem Neustart das Neuanlegen des Profils verlangt. Ich habe die alten Profile über about:profiles gelöscht und neue angelegt. Firefox habe ich auch deinstalliert und neu installiert, aber das brachte keine Lösung. Am nächsten Tag ist das Profil wieder defekt und es erscheint folgende Nachricht:

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Using an older version of Firefox can corrupt bookmarks and browsing history already saved to an existing Firefox profile. To protect your information, create a new profile for this installation of Firefox.

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Wir benutzen die aktuellste Firefox-Version 113 und setzen keine Roaming-Profile ein. Es handelt sich um eine Domänenumgebung, in der mit GPOs gearbeitet wird, jedoch ohne spezifische Einstellungen für Firefox. Hat jemand mehr Erfahrung und weiß, woran es liegen könnte? Vielen Dank an alle!