What the heck is with this 1.5.0.1 update?
There have been more than a few people wondering why they got a 1.5.0.1 update when there is no announcement on any of the Mozilla sites. The update you are getting is the 1.5.0.1 release candidate mentioned here.
You are, whether you knew it for sure or not, a beta tester! How did this happen? Simple - you installed Firefox 1.5b1 or 1.5b2 and then used the auto-upgrade system to move to the 1.5 final release.
Since you installed a beta and never re-installed Firefox from the full installer your update “channel” is beta - which means you are willing to run beta versions of Firefox. You can confirm this by opening the file {firefox install dir}\defaults\prefs\channel-prefs.js in a text editor. If line 2 looks like this:
- pref(”app.update.channel”, “beta”);
you are on the beta channel
If you want to only receive the final release updates you can simply change this line to:
- pref(”app.update.channel”, “release”);
save the file and restart Firefox. Alternatively, if you run the full 1.5 installer it will make this change for you.
Let us know if you have any problems - and thanks for your help!