When updating manually, FF just updates to the next version, not the latest version. This is ridiculously time consuming.
I prefer to update ff manually. However, if I miss a few updates and then select update, it updates one update at a time, instead of just updating to the newest version in one clean sweep - like it should! This is crazy time-consuming and irritating. This IS NOT status quo! Firefox is a little behind the times here. I am not looking for suggestions on how i should just remove and reinstall Firefox. That's time consuming too. I JUST WANT FIREFOX TO KNOW THAT THEY NEED TO MODERNIZE MANUAL UPDATE TO JUMP TO THE NEWEST VERSION IN ONE STEP!
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Hi
What I think may be happening is that the updates are coming across incrementally as certain elements need to be in place before others are added. If it just went to the latest version, it may not work.
The latest version is Firefox 37.0.1 as you can see on www.mozilla.org/firefox/all
It should give you a full update to current version (instead of a small partial) if you miss one or more partial updates as that has been the norm ever since Firefox 2.0
However the full updates are only as far back as from Firefox 35.0.1 to 37.0.1 currently.
Modified by James
Note that a possible usage of multiple updates is to allow migration code to update files in the profile folder properly to a new version that otherwise might cause issues (dataloss).
It's possible that Firefox had downloaded that intermediate update automatically but not applied it for one reason or another, so rather than go to the web and check for a newer update, Firefox just used the one it already had. It's unusual to have so many point updates so frequently, so I'm not sure when it would be possible to try to observe this possibility.