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Getting notified of Adobe Flash updates
I am using the latest version of Firefox with Adobe Flash plugin as a standard user on Windows 7.
I notice that I do not get notified of a pending update unless I happen to close and reopen my ...
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Firefox: Autoupdate from 4 to 5 on Linux
I am using Firefox 4.01 on GNU/Linux x86_64.
Is there any reason why there is no autoupdate? In fact, when I look at the "About Firefox" dialog, it just says "Updates available at http://www....
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How to Update ShockWave Flash Add-Ons in FireFox?
I currently have v10.1.8.53 of the Shockwave Flash Add-on installed in Firefox v3.5.19.
I want to update the add-on to the latest version so I downloaded the installer .exe and ran the installation. ...
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Firefox autoupdate feature borked
My Firefox installation suddenly stopped presenting automatic update prompt. (nor Help menu command have effect). So i'm stuck with v.3.6.9 while v.4.0 is out already. Please suggest where should i ...
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How to roll back an update of a Firefox addon
Today I updated Adblock Plus addon from v1.2 to v1.3. After restarting Firefox, I realized that Adblock Plus no more blocks ads no matter if I activate or deactivate it. This seems to be a buggy ...
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Firefox can't update itself in Windows 7
I have Firefox 3.6.6 running in Windows 7 64 bit. The problem is this: When Firefox checks for updates (of itself, not of addons) and tries to install them, I get an error message saying something ...
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Why does firefox ask me to upgrade Flash?
Why does Firefox ask me to upgrade flash occasionally when there appears to be no difference between the versions (10.1 r86 to 10.1 r86)? Also why do I have to always re-download the Adobe download ...
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Update firefox to newest version in Linux
The newest version of Firefox is not showing in the software package manager so I went to the website and downloaded it. After uncompressing it, there isn't a makefile. It looks like this can be run ...
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Strange that Firefox asked me to upgrade automatically, but not to 3.6.6, only to 3.5.10?
As usual, Firefox asked me to upgrade... but it upgraded to 3.5.10, and then it has a link to see the "latest version", which is 3.6.6
So, a bit strange, why Firefox doesn't directly upgrade to 3.6.6?...
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Firefox 3.6 in Ubuntu 9.04 doesn’t work without proxy
I'm on Ubuntu 9.04. I've updated Firefox with ubuntuzilla. Now Firefox forks only via proxy. How can I fix this?
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(When) is Firefox 3.6 going to be pushed to 3.5.x users?
Is it a separate branch entirely? So 3.6 will never automatically come to 3.5.x users?
(It's not that I'm too lazy to click through the help menu. I actually don't want it to for now because it ...
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firefox restarting problem in ubuntu
i'm using ubuntu 8.10 . now i updated firefox it doesn't result any error. when i open it the back,refresh buttons are not working and always shows "Your browser has been updated and needs to be ...
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Firefox: is it possible to block update reminder for one specific extension?
I'd like to stick with Firefox extension ReadItLater version 0.9948 - but Firefox keeps reminding me that update is available.
Is there any way to get rid of reminders for this specific extension?
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How can I update Firefox add-ons automatically?
Similar to this question, is it possible to update installed plugins via the command line?
I'm running YSlow with beacon reporting as a nightly cron job under OSX:
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/...
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Automatic update of Firefox in Vista
Last year I got a PC for the kids with Windows Vista and, amongst other things, set it up with a copy of firefox 3.0.1. None of the kids accounts are administrators so every now and then software asks ...
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