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How do I update firefox when I have not installed the maintenance service?

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milindsmart
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I uninstalled and reinstalled firefox and opted not to install the maintenance service (because I was not able to avoid the auto-update that happens whenever I even accidentally go to "About Firefox"). I was not ready to let go of a few legacy extensions so I did not update till now. Now I'm ready and I find that I just cannot update firefox. 

- (There's an executable to start the maintenance service, but I don't want to use that route). 
- Going to the about box gives me an option to download a new executable, but I don't want to reinstall and [I heard](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1154387) it would not retain all that an update would. 
- I tried running "updater.exe" which did nothing.

How do I *manually* update firefox? An honest to goodness way of updating, possibly with a standalone executable, would be nice.

I uninstalled and reinstalled firefox and opted not to install the maintenance service (because I was not able to avoid the auto-update that happens whenever I even accidentally go to "About Firefox"). I was not ready to let go of a few legacy extensions so I did not update till now. Now I'm ready and I find that I just cannot update firefox. - (There's an executable to start the maintenance service, but I don't want to use that route). - Going to the about box gives me an option to download a new executable, but I don't want to reinstall and [I heard](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1154387) it would not retain all that an update would. - I tried running "updater.exe" which did nothing. How do I *manually* update firefox? An honest to goodness way of updating, possibly with a standalone executable, would be nice.

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milindsmart
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What worked for me was running firefox as an administrator. It set off a series of pending actions that allowed it to update itself.

Although in retrospect this looks obvious given that I opted to avoid the maintenance service, it was quite confusing when there is no obvious button to say "update". Something to look into.

FredMcD
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Press the Alt or F10 key to bring up the toolbar. Then Help > About Firefox will tell you what version have. WARNING: and install any updates.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/update-firefox-latest-version

If you have trouble with the upgrade, use this link; http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/