What does Firefox Update change?

So I am trying to figure out a way to update Firefox without going around to each and every machine.
I have partially achieved this by copying over
C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox from a machine with the current version to a machine with the old version and it seemed to work pretty well. Except. My inventory software is reading it still as the old version.
So where else does the update effect? I though it might be in the registry files someplace but I don't see it....

Add-ons are developed by third-party developers, and as such there is no guarantee they won't break. We aren't responsible for them or for making sure the millions of add-ons in existence all work properly in every version of Firefox (If we were, we might as well give up on Firefox).
That being said, we do try to restrict breaking changes to the code that Add-ons use. Sometimes it is inevitable, but we make sure to give add-on authors plenty of warning (usually 12-18+ weeks) before a change that might break their extension. We also automatically check every extension installed on our site for things that might not work in new versions, and every extension that passes (the vast majority) are default to be compatible with the new version without the add-on author having to do anything.
Unless you have a third-party binary extension. These are commonly Anti-virus toolbars, etc. These extensions stop working with updates frequently. This is because these companies don't bother to read our notes of what's changing or to release updates for their software until after release.

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What did you home page change to? That might help identify the source of the problem.
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