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Mozilla Foundation and its contributors - Mozilla Maintenance Service |
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What Is Mozilla Maintenance Service?
It is an optional background Windows service (program) which allows Firefox or Thunderbird to install updates without requiring you to see (and click ‘Yes’ in) the User Account Control (UAC) window in Windows 10/8/7 and Vista.
[Note: even though XP does not have UAC, this Service is still installed – the aim was to use it to further streamline the update process but there is no evidence this ever happened for XP]
The Service therefore allows ‘silent’ updates of Firefox and Thunderbird (or almost silent – they still need to be restarted to apply the update).
It works as follows: once Firefox has downloaded an update, it starts up the Service which automatically gets permission from Windows to allow the update to be installed (without a UAC dialog window asking you for permission).
Until that time, the Service doesn’t run so it doesn’t use any computer resources or slow down your computer – once the update process begins, the Service has done its job and therefore closes again.
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