Did you folks just send out an emergency patch? Scored the h... out of me, since you normally do updates automatically. Thought it was a virus.
I have been having many crashes lately, so I thought that might be the reason for the patch. But I was afraid to install the patch, because Mozilla normally installs updates automatically.
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Firefox 47.0 is the current Release.
Firefox updates whether for Windows, Mac OSX or Linux are done internally in Firefox itself (with a .mar file) and by download from mozilla.org like say www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/
There is no such thing as Firefox_update.exe or Firefox_patche.exe and these are always from random sites as scammers have been using this tactic in last few years to try and trick inexperienced Windows and or Firefox users into downloading and infecting their Windows if they run the said .exe
I use Linux and have downloaded a number of these fake Firefox updates .exe's over a few years and uploaded to virustotal and they were always found to be trojans, virus and such malware.
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Firefox 47.0 is the current Release.
Firefox updates whether for Windows, Mac OSX or Linux are done internally in Firefox itself (with a .mar file) and by download from mozilla.org like say www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/
There is no such thing as Firefox_update.exe or Firefox_patche.exe and these are always from random sites as scammers have been using this tactic in last few years to try and trick inexperienced Windows and or Firefox users into downloading and infecting their Windows if they run the said .exe
I use Linux and have downloaded a number of these fake Firefox updates .exe's over a few years and uploaded to virustotal and they were always found to be trojans, virus and such malware.