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Unable to Auto Update ESR 91.10 Silently Without Browser Open
I have been tasked to have our Firefox auto update without user interaction. We have a small enterprise of about 2000 or so PCs but only maybe 300 use Firefox consistently. According to the GPOs it claims that it will update even when the browser is not open. I have this working fine on Chrome and Edge. You can see my attached screenshots that my GPOs are dropping down correctly to my VM. When I open Firefox and leave it open I can see that an "updated" folder is created in the Program Files>Mozilla Firefox. If I close Firefox the updated folder disappears and and installs the latest update. Once I reopen Firefox I can see that it updated. I need this to happen without the browser being launched, closed and reopened. I went into Settings>General and noticed that my update section is missing some of the update options that I see when researching. Automatically Install Updates and When Firefox is not Running options (see screen shots) are missing from my install. I am pretty sure this is why it will not truly silently auto update. Does anyone know where those two options are controlled from and how do I get those to show on my installs?
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Your environment doesn't use SCCM to push updates? My current job uses it and I can't wait to get away from it.
Yes we currently use SCCM/MECM to deploy Firefox but we are trying to get away from that by having Firefox update on it's on.
Firefox 91 ESR did not fully have support for the background updater.
Firefox 102 ESR should do what you want
Thank you!
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