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Firefox does automatically download the next version in the background. It prompts you to restart a while after the update is downloaded, but we're working on

Firefox does automatically download the next version in the background. It prompts you to restart a while after the update is downloaded, but we're working on making the prompting less intrusive than it's been in the past. Also, I think you get a more intrusive prompt if the update will disable any extensions. See this article for some of the work we're doing to make add-on compatibility work seamlessly in new versions: http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2011/04/19/add-on-compatibility-rapid-releases/ http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2011/04/19/add-on-compatibili...

JadeNB 15y ago
Where does it get the download? I seem to be one of the few left who likes to upgrade manually—I like to give others some time to shake out the bugs first—and so I use Firefox's notifications as a reminder to go and download the file myself. I'm running 5.0b7, and have been receiving notifications for a while (maybe 3 days?) that there was an update available; but http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel and https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html didn't have any upgrade available until today. Is there somewhere else to look, or were my upgrade notifications erroneous?
- saratogacx 15y ago
  Help -> About lets you know if there is an update and has an apply update button to start it whenever you like.
  - JadeNB 15y ago
    Thanks, but (while that's a sensible answer to the question) it's not quite what I wanted. I would like to be able to download the new version myself. Is it really true that, up until today, it was possible to update from 5.0b7 to 5.0 within the browser itself, but impossible to download 5.0 directly? If not (i.e., if it is possible to download 5.0 directly), then I must have been looking in the wrong places; where should I look?
    - mbrubeck 15y ago
      I'm pretty sure there were no releases between 5.0b7 and 5.0 final, so I'm not sure why Firefox was prompting you to update. But in any case, you can download any release manually from ftp://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
      - JadeNB 15y ago
        Thanks!

JadeNB 15y ago

Where does it get the download? I seem to be one of the few left who likes to upgrade manually—I like to give others some time to shake out the bugs first—and so I use Firefox's notifications as a reminder to go and download the file myself. I'm running 5.0b7, and have been receiving notifications for a while (maybe 3 days?) that there was an update available; but http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel and https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html didn't have any upgrade available until today. Is there somewhere else to look, or were my upgrade notifications erroneous?

saratogacx 15y ago
Help -> About lets you know if there is an update and has an apply update button to start it whenever you like.
- JadeNB 15y ago
  Thanks, but (while that's a sensible answer to the question) it's not quite what I wanted. I would like to be able to download the new version myself. Is it really true that, up until today, it was possible to update from 5.0b7 to 5.0 within the browser itself, but impossible to download 5.0 directly? If not (i.e., if it is possible to download 5.0 directly), then I must have been looking in the wrong places; where should I look?
  - mbrubeck 15y ago
    I'm pretty sure there were no releases between 5.0b7 and 5.0 final, so I'm not sure why Firefox was prompting you to update. But in any case, you can download any release manually from ftp://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
    - JadeNB 15y ago
      Thanks!