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Why no indication of 5.0.1 on Help About Firefox?

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thewildman
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I had 5.0 installed a check of Help About Firefox showed it as up to date. Checking FileHippo.com showed 5.0.1, How come no indication of this in Help About Firefox?

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I had 5.0 installed a check of Help About Firefox showed it as up to date. Checking FileHippo.com showed 5.0.1, How come no indication of this in Help About Firefox? Thanks

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James
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It is because Firefox 5.0 is still the current update for Windows and Linux users as the 5.0.1 was really only for to have a couple work around's for Mac OSX users as in a font issue for OSX 10.7 that may crash Firefox and a Java plugin loading issue on OSX 10.5. (They say OSX 10.6 but really meant OSX 10.5)

FileHippo was not aware it was only really for MAC OSX.

http://christian.legnitto.com/blog/2011/07/12/why-are-there-no-firefox-5-0-1-and-3-6-19-automatic-updates-for-windows-and-linux/

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