On version 24 tried to update to 25 says install pending and will not update.

Question

Apparently on 11/10/13 at 1:31:34 firefox did a security update from version 24 to version 25. At that time my system may have been doing a backup to a usb drive. In checking other problems on my system that has to do with video hesitation I looked at the version of firefox. When I go to about help section is says I am on version 24. When I click the look for updates, it says a newer version is available. I click to download and it fails. No error message. When I go to the troubleshooting information page and look at the update history. It says that version 25 was installed and is pending installation. How can I get the new version installed? I have a lot saved bookmarks and am afraid to just install the new complete version. Any ideas on what i can do? Appreciate the help.
rich oros

Answer 1

Greetings. Firstly firefox failing to properly update, and not have and sort of resolution is nothing new. Mozilla, and Netscape has had a long history of dodgy update, poor page rendering, and being as slow (or slower) than glacier on tar- hence it's nickname 'nutscrape'
I am also experiencing several issues directly related to firefox . For me 'update 26' flatout did not work, and as far as I can tell the last few updates haven't gone well. None of
-Gmail.
-Bing,
Amazon
Google (for searches)
G+
Youtube
(that's my short list)
Work. At. All.
I can pove this is unique to firefox for at least 'update 26'- Those webpages for sure will with seamonkey.
You can also prove it by way of using something from around V22.
If you can: Us a previus version of firefox. I don't know for sure if that'll messup your set-up. Up to 20 you could have two different versions of firefox installed on the same computer without any conflicts.