My wife and I share a computer, each with our own account. She gets an urgent message from Firefox to install an update and I don't. Is this spam?

iMac running Mavericks, Firefox 31.0. She gets these type of messages periodically and I don't. However, if I go to Firefox>About Firefox I get an automatic update. This causes a lot of confusion on her part, and mine as well. It appears to be spam but then it's not.

hello donRobo705, this might be something that is caused by rogue addons. in her account please go to the menu > add-ons > extensions and remove any entries that didn't get installed intentionally or where you don't know which purpose they serve or try to [[Reset Firefox – easily fix most problems|reset firefox]] and see if this can address the issue...
[[Remove a toolbar that has taken over your Firefox search or home page]]
[[Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware]]

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Everytime I log onto my computer I get an urgent message from FireFox. Details below.

Everyday for 3 days now when I log on my computer I get a message that says: "It is strongly recommended that you apply this update for firefox as soon as possible."
It then says "View more information about this update" It will not allow me to view more information(clicking on underlined blue colored line) and I've tried to apply the update and it will not load. The green line just goes back and forth until I finally just shut the loading page down. When I do try to load it by hitting the "Next" button it says connecting to something like trying to connect to upload program now.
Now I'm questioning if this is spam or if there is some reason my computer will not load this update. As I said before it does not say what the update is...that makes me a little nervous now that my computer has refused to allow it to update twice.
I tried to copy the page to send to you and it will not allow me to copy it.

That could be the update to Firefox 10.0.2; you currently have Firefox 10.0.1.
To update you can click on the Firefox menu: ''Firefox button (or File button) > Help > About Firefox > Check for Updates''. After the update is downloaded, you must restart Firefox for the update to be applied.
*See --> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Finding%20your%20Firefox%20version
*See --> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Updating%20Firefox
'''If this reply solves your problem, please click "Solved It" next to this reply when signed-in to the forum.'''
Not related to your question, but...
You may need to update some plug-ins. Check your plug-ins and update as necessary:
*Plug-in check --> http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
*Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in: [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Using%20the%20Shockwave%20plugin%20with%20Firefox#w_installing-shockwave Installing ('''''or Updating''''') the Shockwave plugin with Firefox]
*Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape: [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Using%20the%20Adobe%20Reader%20plugin%20with%20Firefox#w_installing-and-updating-adobe-reader Installing/Updating Adobe Reader in Firefox]
*'''''Shockwave Flash''''' (Adobe Flash or Flash): [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Managing%20the%20Flash%20plugin#w_updating-flash Updating Flash in Firefox]
*'''''Next Generation Java Plug-in for Mozilla browsers''''': [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Using%20the%20Java%20plugin%20with%20Firefox#w_installing-or-updating-java Installing or Updating Java in Firefox]

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Title: Software Update
says,
Update Available
A security and stability update for Firefox is available:
Firefox 5.0.1
bottom
Ask Later Update Firefox (both boxes)

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Fleabag

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http://kb.mozillazine.org/JavaScript_is_not_Java
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[http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode] 
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LeeDribin wrote:
How can my wife and I share iBooks on each of our iPads?
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Alan

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If you see your calendar in your iCloud account, that implies that you have set up your iCloud account to host (sync) your calendar, and perhaps contacts, email, and notes. An iCloud account can only sync one user's information at a time so it is intended to support a single user. You can have more than one iCloud account, and you can even have more than one iCloud account on the same device (but one has to be primary, and the secondary iCloud has limited capabilities), but a single iCloud account only supports a single user's content.
Backup is the saving of your device's content and settings to use in case you need to recover these things, but you can't see the contents of your backup (just the size and device name). You can backup more than one device to iCloud and you can backup to iCloud or you can backup to your computer, or both (one at a time though, you have to choose).
So, if your wife has her own email and calendar she can certainly do that in parallel to whatever account(s) you have for email and calendar. But if you have only one iCloud account then only one of you can use it for email, calendar, etc. But the backup of these accounts is really just a backup of the device's settings that link the device to these accounts. For example, if she uses Gmail then the backup of the iPad only backs up the fact that your iPad is set up to use her account, it does not backup the account itself (the content of her account is saved and preserved on Google's servers, not your device's backup).
Does that make better sense?

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