What happens if you use the menu while online with Firefox

• Use: Menu {three bar icon) -> help { (?) ) -> About Firefox
  That usually initiates an update if one is available
• On a Mac it may be: On the menu bar click the Firefox menu and select About Firefox.
• See Update Firefox to the latest release

I note your user agent string is reported by the forum software as

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0

That is consistent with you being on Fx44.0

The latest version should be available for a direct manual download from:

• https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/
  • 40.0.2 USA https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-44.0.2-SSL&os=osx&lang=en-US

Do not try to uninstall your current version or use any third party uninstaller, it will install thereby updating your current version whilst keeping the existing settings (Profiles - Where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and other user data profile) etc.

You did say you have tried https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#en-US and get a message that you are up to date. I will try to check that out, with my equivalents, maybe something has changed but I do not recall that message from that webpage. Even though I am up to date (in fact on DE/Auora at present) I get a download option from the page you link to above.

I normally only see that sort of message from the default page:

• http://getfirefox.com/
  • https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
    • https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/new

Update: In fact thinking about it further we took of the last digit in the user agent string for privacy reasons so although the forum software is identifying your version as Fx44.0 not Fx44.0.1 or Fx44.0.2 you should be able to double check by looking in the troubleshooting information page.

Quickest method of opening that is to type into the address bar about:support

• Use the Troubleshooting Information page to help fix Firefox issues

I tried going to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ site which gives the latest version of Firefox to Download. It does not recognize version 44.0 as being upgrade-able to 44.02.

What happens when you try the menu button then the help button to look at About Firefox.

Use the address bar and try "about:" What does that show as your build identifier ?

• Mine is:
  Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0

Then try about:support and look for the version. What does that show ?

• Mine is:
  Version 46.0a2

Normally when people complain Firefox will not upgrade it is because something has changed their user agent string, but in your case the forum software seems to show your user agent string as matching Fx44.0 otherwise the thread would show a Fx 44.0.2 tag.

Please post a screenshot of the about:support (troubleshooting Information page) . If necessary I will then try to get someone else to help with this issue.

• Use the Troubleshooting Information page to help fix Firefox issues
• How do I create a screenshot of my problem?

The Firefox useragents has not had the minor update version ever since Firefox 16.0 (if i recall) as part of Mozilla's effort make the UA's less unique.

So a useragent for Firefox 44.0.2 is still going to show as for example Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0 to websites.

check the about: and about:support in Location (address bar) as suggested above.

Either check for updates in Help menu or go to www.mozilla.org/firefox/all if you want to download 44.0.2 instead.

OK. so this is a bug that Firefox doesn't recognize the z value in the version format. "xx.y.z"

The minor version isn't exposed to a website, so it is impossible to check that. This forum could possibly check that by using a special API to retrieve the troubleshooting information (about:support).

Bug 728831 - Don't expose the Firefox patch level (13.X.Y) in the UA string, only show the major version

mace2 said

OK. so this is a bug that Firefox doesn't recognize the z value in the version format. "xx.y.z"

Not a bug but it has been a intentional change that the minor updates (like the .2 in 44.0.2) are not be shown in Firefox useragents to websites. The useragents also used to have the build dates instead of the 20100101 you see now.

From above tracking bug it was first done in Firefox 16.0.2 and been that way since.