Firefox Update Mistake
Earlier today I still hadn't been prompted to install Firefox 2.0.0.9, so I decided to download it and install it myself. I went to the website, downloaded the installer, installed Firefox 2.0.0.9 and opened Firefox... The new version was installed and things were going good... Then a couple of hours ago I had the Firefox auto-update pop-up and tell me I needed to install 2.0.0.9. I'm not sure if manually installing caused this boo-boo or what, but I found it slightly amusing.
Categories: IT
Where did you install 2.0.0.9? If you installed over a previous version, some old update related files might still be sitting around. Try looking in your application directory and delete the active-update.xml file and try checking for updates. If you don’t get a prompt, you’ll be fine until we offer 2.0.0.10.
@Jay
I had 2.0.0.8 installed in the default location, which is where I also installed 2.0.0.9. I’m not overly concerned, everything says 2.0.0.9 after the restart and it doesn’t see that any updates are available now… I may experiment on a VM at some point, just to see if I can recreate what happened here.
Thanks for the comment.
Tyler.
I think this is a minor bug. FF was probably downloading 2.0.0.9 in the background from a REALLY slow mirror or something. In the meantime you downloaded and installed 2.0.0.9. When you started FF (2.0.0.9) it restarted the background DL that was already in-progress (not checking/realizing that it was no longer needed) when the DL finally finished it prompted you to restart FF and install.
But that’s just a guess.