Mozilla has been working on silent updates for Firefox for 17 months. The Chrome-like service would let Mozilla deploy emergency security fixes without bothering users. Silent updates would be installed silently in the background of Firefox. Google’s Chrome has used automatic updates since its September 2008 debut. Mozilla has Firefox 11 with patches for 12 vulnerabilities, nine of them rated “critical” Firefox 3.6 is now officially retired, Mozilla announced yesterday. The next version of Firefox is scheduled to ship April 24; Firefox 4 or later will be offered the upgrade.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2131136/mozilla-will-start-firefox-silent-updates-in-june.html