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firefox says it is at the latest version, even though it is at an older version

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jaymz411
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I checked the version of firefox and it says it is up to date. but a security program is telling me it is out of date. Looks like i have 47 installed and the latest is supposed to be 49.

I checked the version of firefox and it says it is up to date. but a security program is telling me it is out of date. Looks like i have 47 installed and the latest is supposed to be 49.

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jaymz411
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philipp
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hi, if you have not set firefox to update automatically, you may have to manually install the following hotfix addon to be able to jump over 47.0.1... https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/firefox-hotfix/

the reason for this is a bit complicated - it's basically a certain third-party software ("websense") that causes firefox 48+ to crash on startup so we are only updating installations where we know that they aren't users of this thirdparty tool at the moment.