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Aurora Keeps Updating For No Reason

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Either every other day or else everytime I manually check for an update on Aurora it thinks there is an update. And then when I restart Aurora it turns out it updated to the exact same version of Aurora. Why does it do this? And/Or how do I fix this issue? This started happened last week. Around, I believe, a week after I had installed Aurora. I've tried re-installing Aurora onto the one I already have.

Either every other day or else everytime I manually check for an update on Aurora it thinks there is an update. And then when I restart Aurora it turns out it updated to the exact same version of Aurora. Why does it do this? And/Or how do I fix this issue? This started happened last week. Around, I believe, a week after I had installed Aurora. I've tried re-installing Aurora onto the one I already have.

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hello, i suppose this is expected behaviour - aurora is a development version that comes with daily updates. if you want less updates either switch to the beta channel (which receives ~weekly updates) or the release channel which has a six week release cycle.

https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/channel/

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hello, i suppose this is expected behaviour - aurora is a development version that comes with daily updates. if you want less updates either switch to the beta channel (which receives ~weekly updates) or the release channel which has a six week release cycle.

https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/channel/

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Oh ok I hadn't realized that. I kept seeing it say version 22.0a2 and thought that it was doing that for no reason. I hadn't realized there was an update everyday.

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Aurora gets checkins almost everyday so therefore it gets a update that day as a result. The more unstable Nightly channel is the same and sometimes it gets a respin that same day.

You can tell what build you have by the build date in useragent.

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You can also see the date of the current version via Help > About and buildID (browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID) on the Help > Troubleshooting Information page.

If you do not want daily updates then either use the 21.0 beta version (update once a week) or the current release (updated every six weeks)

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I don't mind it being updated everyday. I just hadn't realized that they updated Aurora everyday.

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