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Update popup?

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Wizzlbang
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Today a popup opened up while firefox was running informing me that I should update to 38.0.5, is this a new feature? Normally when there's an update, firefox asks to update right when I try to launch it, it's never opened a popup while it was already running before.

Sorry if I'm being paranoid, I've just seen malware disguising itself as firefox updates before

Today a popup opened up while firefox was running informing me that I should update to 38.0.5, is this a new feature? Normally when there's an update, firefox asks to update right when I try to launch it, it's never opened a popup while it was already running before. Sorry if I'm being paranoid, I've just seen malware disguising itself as firefox updates before

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philipp
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hi Wizzlbang, yes there's an update to 38.0.5 released today, so the notification was probably genuine. to be completely sure, you can always go to the firefox menu ≡ > help (?) > about firefox dialog, where you can look for and apply an update directly...