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After Firefox did an automatic update, I couldn't access the program. Why?

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Firefox did an automatic update on my computer. After that was complete, I could not open the program and had to download a new version. Updates aren't helpful if they cause the program to vanish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Does anyone else know why this happened?

Firefox did an automatic update on my computer. After that was complete, I could not open the program and had to download a new version. Updates aren't helpful if they cause the program to vanish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Does anyone else know why this happened?

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There are several possible reasons. But since you did a successful reinstall, we may never know for sure.