While you are on the Update screen, you can see what changed in each new version of the program by clicking the Update History button. When you are on the Options/Preferences screen, click Advanced on the left side of the window, and then on the Update tab to see the current settings.
While this schedule - which makes for a Firefox update about every six weeks - can be helpful for plugging bugs and security holes, it can cause user fatigue from seeing frequent requests to restart the browser because it has just updated itself again.įirefox is set by default to update automatically, but you can change this behavior in the program’s Options area (called Preferences in the Mac version), which lives under the Menu button in the top-right corner of the Firefox window. Mozilla, the nonprofit company behind the Firefox browser, decided to put the software on a “rapid release” schedule a few years ago to speed up the development and delivery of security updates, performance improvements and new features to the program. Why does the Firefox browser on my computer constantly update itself? Is there a way to see what is actually being changed?Ī.
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