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Hi,

For the past few weeks (or more) Firefox will not start up in one of my Mac user profiles. Please find attached a screenshot of the dialog it shows when I try to start it up.

I forget what happened, but I think it has to do with an update to macOS and (perhaps) not agreeing to all security measures that Firefox asked for…

For now, I’m working in DuckDuckGo in this user profile, but I thought I’d ask in case anybody can save me the research time to figure this out on my own.

Thanks for reading.

Hi, I keep getting notifications that I need to update Firefox before the 14th to continue using it. I clicked on the link and downloaded Linux 64 bit (I did some research and I'm pretty sure this is the correct version for my pc), but it just went to the downloads section in the top right of my screen and now I can't figure out what to do next. I'm not very good with computers, so please make your answers as dumbed down as possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!

I have been instructed to update by March 14th. I have complied, but am still receiving the instruction to update, and have now been told I must update or lose the service. I have updated over and over again

Seriously? How many updates do you need? We're getting what... 1-2 per week? That's some smegging awful coding. Why not do something mildly intelligent that makes it look like your software isn't full of crap, like only putting in /at most/ one update a month? 1-2 a week makes Mozilla look worst than a Mickey Mouse operation. Hell, worse than a Betty Boop. Unless there's some super-critical omega-level security hole that needs to be plugged, you shouldn't have to have me update my browser more than twice a year.

Show some sense already.

I'm using version 135.0.1 (64-bit) on Win11. The latest version on the site is 136.0, but no notification is given, and Help/About doesn't do it or offer the option. I've browsed the web page that discusses an "Update Firefox" section in Settings/General, but no such section exists. Anyone knows what happened??? Tnx, Nir

Hello

I'm not an IT expert so any responses, although appreciated, should be in simple English please. Is it possible to set a time on my PC, for updates to the Firefox browser to be installed? If my PC is left on, after every update (which are regular), it takes ages to boot up my PC and get many windows reopened and working. It really is a massive inconvenience and getting annoying. Whereas when Windows wants to update, I can ask it to do it at a convenient time for myself, when my PC is shut down or I'm not using it or got numerous windows open, with unfinished work. Thank you in advance for your help in this matter.

I keep seeing a warning that I'd better update firefox by March 14th. But when I try, there seems to be no easy way to do it. I can download the archives, either .bz2 or .xz, for several different versions (ESR or not), for Linux-64. But upon opening these archives, I don't see any obvious "INSTALL" script, nor a "README" or anything else to get me started. How deep do I have to dig into this, to get this simple task done? Why can't it be "one click"? I don't want to go through the hassle of setting up the Debian apt archive to point at Mozilla, since it doesn't seem to be in the defaults -- and why should I have to?

I try to follow the directions in Support, which direct me to the "three lines" menu -> Settings -> General -> Firefox Updates. But it doesn't "automatically download" the new update, in fact it doesn't even seem to try to check for updates, nor is there any link to click to make it update manually. What I see in that panel does not match the screenshot in the Support (see attached image).

I click on "download installer", but it just takes me to the same page where I can specify my language, etc., and then download the archive of the browser itself. No sign of any installer, as mentioned above.

Why is this so hard??? Has my browser been hacked to prevent updates? Please help!

--Benjamin Ketcham-McGrath