SillyDog701

[Antony]

Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6.25 to Firefox 3.6.x users.

Firefox 3.6.25 can be downloaded from this Mozilla page.

Mozilla did not mention a great detail about this update, except the usual:

Firefox 3.6.25 fixes the following issues found in previous versions of Firefox 3.6:

* Fixed several security issues.
* Fixed several stability issues.

Which apparently only fixed one security issue where .jar was not being treated as executable in Firefox 3.6 on Mac.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111103 AlexaToolbar/alxf-2.14 Firefox/3.6.24

[Antony]

This is the welcome screen from the new Firefox 3.6.25.


Effectively, this less-than-one-day-old Firefox is “out of date.” Which, I may add, was forced to update itself.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.25) Gecko/20111212 Firefox/3.6.25

[Fulvio]

The forced issue has been handled before. I don't know if it is a case of having the wrong settings, or a MAC thing. It, surely, does not happen to me, unless I check for updates, manually. Then, I ignore the message.
By the way, I have not used 3.6.24 for a couple of days, and if it behaves like yours, I will post.
I logged in 3.6.24, and Help|Check for Updates, and 3.6.25 came up. After installation, though, the page told me that I was using an old version. Of course, I ignored the advice.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0

[Antony]

The key issue is not "forced update", although it still stands correct.

The key issue here is simple:
Users using Mac OS X Tiger (or PowerPC processor users), following Mozilla's rushing for the latest attitude which means using the latest available version in hope to keep Mozilla happy, receives a rather nasty message that tells users off their (just updated) Firefox is outdated.

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.25 is the latest version that supports Mac OS X Tiger (version 10.4.x) and Mac with PowerPC processor.

For the reference, Firefox 9 still embraces the soon-to-be-12-year-old Windows 2000, while Mac OS X Tiger was only released in 2005.

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UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.25) Gecko/20111212 AlexaToolbar/alxf-2.14 Firefox/3.6.25