Mozilla Firefox is one of the most used browsers across the world. This is proven to be one of the safest browsers, so the user base for Mozilla Firefox is increasing day by day. Mozilla Firefox has been designed to download applets in the background, while you use the browser. It downloads and keeps those updated files in the background, so the next time when you will restart your computer and restart Firefox, then those updates will be installed automatically. So you literally don't have to do anything, but if you're the person who doesn't close their browser windows or maybe doesn't even restart your computers for a few days or weeks, then you might have updates pending in the background that have not been installed.
Update Mozilla Firefox browser
To check firefox version and updates simply go to the menu, in the top right side click on the menu and then go to the bottom of that menu and put your mouse over help click on that and then go to about Firefox and that will pop up a small window and on this window, you'll be able to see the current version of Firefox that you're running then you'll see whether you have pending updates currently
Now to confirm that you installed the latest version of Firefox, visit the official web page of Firefox from here and confirm.
Sometimes, when you have left your automatic updates on, now if there are any pending updates then they are downloaded automatically, and then you'll be prompted to restart your browser so that we can install now those updates.
If you're the kind of person who doesn't like their updates installed automatically, which is not something recommend because updates normally come with bug fixes and updated security features. But for one reason or the other if you don't like automatic updates, then you can go to the menu and then go to options and on the options, the window makes sure the general tab is selected on the left-hand side and then scroll down to updates and then choose the check for updates, and let you choose to install them.
As you use the browser it's going to check for updates and possibly download those updates, but when your browser does not allow it to, automatically install those updates, you cannot download them until the browser allows you to install those updates. In that case, you need to make sure that your browser allows for auto-updates.
With Ubuntu, you can run the following code mentioned below to update/install the Mozilla Firefox that was available in your Ubuntu repository
How to update Firefox?
Run this code to update the sources list of your Ubuntu:
$ Sudo apt-get update
The following is the output that the above command returns.
You need to have a proper internet connection to make this process run smoothly. After some time it will ask whether you want to continue, now click on yes (Y)
Wait for some time; it takes time to update those files.
Now you have to reboot the PC using the following command to reflect the updates in your browser.
$ reboot
The following is the output that the above command returns.
Run this to install/update Firefox
$ Sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade Firefox
The following is the output that the above command returns and updates the latest version into Ubuntu.
Conclusion
Sometimes users don’t prefer the automatic updates of the Firefox due to network usage or some other issues, but if they wanted to update their Firefox, This article gives them a clear picture of how to install and update Firefox using Linux on Ubuntu.
Hope you like this article.
