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Firefox forces a restart every 15 minutes to update on MacOS X Sierra

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jrjarrett
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Starting sometime in the past week, Firefox notifies me that it will force a restart in 15 minutes to update, every 15 minutes.

I have gone into the preferences and under "Firefox Updates," I have chosen "Check for updates but let you choose to install them", but it keeps happening.

One piece of information that may be important is that my normal user on OS X does not have admin rights; I have a separate user that does that I must use to install software. (This causes apps like Postman to fail to auto update since it tries to update as my normal user, rather than let me authenticate as an admin user).

Why does this keep happening and how do I fix it? I have tried quitting Firefox, checking the about box to make sure it's the most up-to-date, rebooting....none of which fixes this.

Starting sometime in the past week, Firefox notifies me that it will force a restart in 15 minutes to update, every 15 minutes. I have gone into the preferences and under "Firefox Updates," I have chosen "Check for updates but let you choose to install them", but it keeps happening. One piece of information that may be important is that my normal user on OS X does not have admin rights; I have a separate user that does that I must use to install software. (This causes apps like Postman to fail to auto update since it tries to update as my normal user, rather than let me authenticate as an admin user). Why does this keep happening and how do I fix it? I have tried quitting Firefox, checking the about box to make sure it's the most up-to-date, rebooting....none of which fixes this.

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cor-el
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If there a problem with updating or with the permissions then best is to download the full version and trash the currently installed Firefox application to do a clean reinstall.

Download a new copy of the Firefox application and save the Disk Image file to the desktop

Your personal data like bookmarks is stored in the Firefox profile folder, so you won't lose personal data When you uninstall and reinstall or update Firefox, but make sure NOT to remove personal data When you uninstall Firefox as that will remove all Firefox profile folders and you lose your personal data.