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What's wrong with my Firefox?

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I'm using Firefox Nightly, and I'm fully aware that preview features come with their fair share of bugs. Usually, it only prompts for a restart to update every 2-3 days, but today, I’ve had to restart 5 times. 5!!

The version numbers are as follows:

20260505081714 20260505214504 20260506085915 20260506210744 20260507021236

I'm just wondering if there’s something wrong with my browser. Should I perform a clean install?"

I'm using Firefox Nightly, and I'm fully aware that preview features come with their fair share of bugs. Usually, it only prompts for a restart to update every 2-3 days, but today, I’ve had to restart 5 times. 5!! The version numbers are as follows: 20260505081714 20260505214504 20260506085915 20260506210744 20260507021236 I'm just wondering if there’s something wrong with my browser. Should I perform a clean install?"

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Nothing wrong. Nightly has usually two releases a day. Sometimes, for testing important features, even more Nightly builds are made on a day, but this is not the case. If you check the time stamps, they come from three days, with two builds a day tops: 05/05, 05/05, 05/06, 05/06, 05/07 — so that all checks out. Why it took you through all the hoops and updated individually, instead of just the latest build right away? That's a good point, and normally should only update you to the latest version, unless the updater wasn't aware there's something new until restarted — that's a good thing to watch for over time, if it still exhibits after a few updates.

If several builds a day sounds inconvenient and you don't really need all the bleeding edge changes and experimental prefs, you can move to the Beta/Dev channel that's one cycle behind Nightly, which only gets about 2–3 updates a week normally.

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