I use Firefox 3.6 for Mac. I’m satisfied enough with it, and heard enough things about the way Mozilla is handling Firefox post 4.0, that I don’t want to upgrade.
However, an upgrade prompt appeared while I was typing something, so one of my keystrokes (return or space) got interpreted as “please, I want this thing I don’t really want!” and started the download.
I stopped it, but as far as I can tell, there’s no way to cancel out of it entirely. It’s hanging around as a “resume Firefox 11 download” item in my help menu.
My question is, is there any harm in leaving it like that? Specifically, I’m thinking in terms of updates to FF 3.6. I know that officially, it’s not being supported anymore, but I remember downloading an actual update to it just a few months ago. Will the suspending FF 11 download keep me from getting any more of those that may (or may not!) happen in the future?
If you received an update separate from the 11.0 upgrade, I would say you’re safe in just letting the damn thing hang there in limbo forever. Also, are you sure it wasn’t an update to a plug-in or extension of some sort that you downloaded?
True, I didn’t see the prompt window long enough to really read what it said, but the Help menu item says “Resume downloading Firefox 11.0…”, so I assume that’s what it is.
And thanks for the info; on the off-chance there are further 3.6 upgrades (the very fact that they still very occasionally do that speaks a lot for my decision, IMO), I want to be absolutely sure I get them.
Firefox post-3.6 isn’t so bad. The only really annoying thing is that each version is a whole number, which remains as stupid as it seemed when they began doing it.
I switched to Chrome, then back to FF when Chrome was doing little things here and there I thought weren’t as good as Firefox.
Script blocking, for example, is much better in Firefox with NoScript than whatever the equivalent is for Chrome.
And there really isn’t any harm in updating your FF…may I ask why you want to stay with 3.6? You say you’re on a Mac, so security updates may not be as important as on a Windows machine, but they’re still nice to have. And even though sometimes I get messages saying “your add on will not work with the latest version of Firefox”, they still do…I suspect what that message means is whoever made the add-on simply hasn’t done whatever Mozilla wants them to do to prove it has no problems with the latest version, but near as I can tell, it doesn’t do anything to stop it from working.
you’re OK for now because Mozilla is still supporting it with bug fixes and whatnot (the current 3.6.28 was released a little over a week ago.) But they’ll surely stop that sooner rather than later.
You should be able to right click on the entry in the Download window and select ‘Cancel’, or click on the ‘x’ which does the same thing. Then select ‘Remove from list’ to take it out of the window.
