Firefox claims that it's up to date although it isn't

[entwi...@gmail.com]

I am using Firefox stable en-US on Windows 7 64-bit.
For a year or so Firefox hasn't been able to detect new updates (not
only stable but also dev and nightly).
I always resorted to manually updating Firefox but it is getting
tiresome since I have several versions of Firefox installed.
Do you guys have any idea what could cause Firefox to incorrectly detect
that it is up to date?

[Good Guy]

Could it be that you have inadvertently checked the box as shown in this picture:

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[entwi...@gmail.com]

Yeah it was set to never check for updates. I changed it to
automatically install updates and I restarted Firefox.

However my About Firefox dialogue still tells me that my version is
48.0.2 and that it's up to date, despite 49.0.1 being already available.

On 16.10.2016 19:32, Good Guy wrote:
> On 16/10/2016 06:51, entwi...@gmail.com wrote:

> Could it be that you have inadvertently checked the box as shown in
> this picture:
>

> Updates Blocked <http://i.imgur.com/Spft5Fd.png>

>
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> satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows.
>
>

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[WaltS48]

On 10/16/2016 03:07 PM, entwi...@gmail.com wrote:
> Yeah it was set to never check for updates. I changed it to
> automatically install updates and I restarted Firefox.
>
> However my About Firefox dialogue still tells me that my version is
> 48.0.2 and that it's up to date, despite 49.0.1 being already available.
>
>

Are you on the Release channel?

> On 16.10.2016 19:32, Good Guy wrote:
>> On 16/10/2016 06:51, entwi...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> I am using Firefox stable en-US on Windows 7 64-bit.
>>> For a year or so Firefox hasn't been able to detect new updates (not
>>> only stable but also dev and nightly).
>>> I always resorted to manually updating Firefox but it is getting
>>> tiresome since I have several versions of Firefox installed.
>>> Do you guys have any idea what could cause Firefox to incorrectly
>>> detect that it is up to date?
>>
>> Could it be that you have inadvertently checked the box as shown in
>> this picture:
>>
>> Updates Blocked <http://i.imgur.com/Spft5Fd.png>
>>


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[responder]

I have the same problem on one of my PC's. Same version Win7 64bit on both.

One is on the release channel and the other not. I tried to put it on
release but never figured out how.

[entwi...@gmail.com]

>Are you on the Release channel?

Yes I am. app.update.channel in about:config is release.

On Monday, 17.10.2016 03:17, responder wrote:
> On 10/16/2016 5:45 PM, WaltS48 wrote:

> I have the same problem on one of my PC's. Same version Win7 64bit on
> both.
>
> One is on the release channel and the other not. I tried to put it on
> release but never figured out how.

[Wolf K.]

I've read the other responses. I suspect that the problem comes from
having "several versions", all of which have apparently been updated at
different times. I suspect detritus left over from different updates is
confusing the update/version query. If so, you may be able to fix it
with a simple uninstall + clean install of the latest version. Worth a
try, you've already spent more time on this than a clean install would
have taken.

FWIW, I'm on the ESR channel, and the latest versions is 45.4.0.

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[entwi...@gmail.com]

> I've read the other responses. I suspect that the problem comes from
> having "several versions", all of which have apparently been updated
> at different times. I suspect detritus left over from different
> updates is confusing the update/version query. If so, you may be able
> to fix it with a simple uninstall + clean install of the latest
> version. Worth a try, you've already spent more time on this than a
> clean install would have taken.

Thanks Wolf for your support. Reinstalling didn't fix it but in the end
I figured it out.
Apparently some malware changed app.update.url.override to
http://au4.moziila.org
I reset it and updating works again flawlessly.

[Ed Mullen]

On 10/16/2016 at 9:17 PM, responder's prodigious digits fired off:

Download and install the latest release version.

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[Anonymous]

With all the FF versions installed, none of them know what they are doing !

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[WaltS48]

That's why users should be using a separate profile for each version
installed.

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