Some websites, including Firefox Help, tell me that I still have Firefox 3.6 when I have updated to 9.0.1 and that is confirmed in "About Firefox". What's going on?
Many websites that I go to have pop ups that tell me I need to up date to a newer version of Firefox because 3.6 is no longer supported and has security problem. I have updated multiple times over the last 3-4 months or more, and I still get this message. In the "about firefox" area it confirms that I have 9.0.1
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Your User Agent shows that your are using Firefox 3.5.3; click "More system details" to the right of your original question and scroll down to see:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 FBSMTWB
See --> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Finding%20your%20Firefox%20version
The problem with your User Agent being changed could be caused by Fast Browser Search (FBSMTWB) being installed on your system:
Remove Fast Browser Search
THEN, reset your User Agent:
- See either of the following:
- Also see --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Agent
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Not related to your question, but...
You may need to update some plug-ins. Check your plug-ins and update as necessary; be sure to un-check any items on the download pages that you do not want installed:
- Plug-in check --> http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
- Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in: Installing (or Updating) the Shockwave plugin with Firefox
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape: Installing/Updating Adobe Reader in Firefox
- Shockwave Flash (Adobe Flash or Flash): Updating Flash in Firefox
- Next Generation Java Plug-in for Mozilla browsers: Installing or Updating Java in Firefox