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I have version 24.0 and it tells me I am up to date... but current version is 29?

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I have Mac OSX 10.9.2 Firefox tells me I have version 24.0 and it is up to date. However, the download page tells me that the latest version is 29. Am I really up to date with version 24? Is the latest version for Max OSX really 24? How do I get the latest version?

I have Mac OSX 10.9.2 Firefox tells me I have version 24.0 and it is up to date. However, the download page tells me that the latest version is 29. Am I really up to date with version 24? Is the latest version for Max OSX really 24? How do I get the latest version?

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mspohr, are you using a Firefox 24.0 release? or a ESR build that is currently based on 24.0 like 24.4.0 or the now current 24.5.0 update that came out when 29.0 did. The Firefox 24 esr builds will not update to a current Release as they are on separate channels.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/

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If you aren't running with an administrator account on OS X, you may not be able to do automatic updates. Also make sure that updates are enabled in Advanced > Update preferences. You can download the new version manually from www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/

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Curious.

No, the latest version for all OSes (Windows, OS X, Linux) is 29 released today. You can update in two ways

  • Go to the orange Firefox button > Help > About Firefox and wait for it to update

or

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I guess I can download and install the latest version manually and I will do that... However, why is Firefox telling me it is up to date when it isn't even close?

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I manually installed the latest version. I have updates enabled in preferences. I'm not sure what is meant by "running with an administrator account" since I never run as administrator for security purposes. However, most software just checks for updates (regardless of which account I am using) and just asks for my admin password when it needs to update something and this works just fine.

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If I recall correctly, Firefox doesn't prompt for your password when doing background updates so if you installed Firefox as an admin user, it won't get updated when you're not an admin. I believe overwriting Firefox in the /Applications directory when you're not an admin should allow you to update in the future.

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mspohr, are you using a Firefox 24.0 release? or a ESR build that is currently based on 24.0 like 24.4.0 or the now current 24.5.0 update that came out when 29.0 did. The Firefox 24 esr builds will not update to a current Release as they are on separate channels.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/

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The release was listed as 24.0 and not anything else. I have since manually updated to 29.0 and all seems fine.