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I changed my update channel to beta by mistake, and it updated to a beta, and now their is no option to change it back.

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I changed my update channel to beta by mistake, and it updated to a beta, and now their is no option to change it back.

I changed my update channel to beta by mistake, and it updated to a beta, and now their is no option to change it back.

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You can only change the update channel if you uninstall Firefox and delete the Firefox program folder or install a release or beta version that copies a new file channel-prefs.js. Updating Firefox never changes the update channel. Only a full install will do that.

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cor-el
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What was your previous update channel?

fxer2011
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Release. I went back to 4.0.1, but still can't change it.

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You can only change the update channel if you uninstall Firefox and delete the Firefox program folder or install a release or beta version that copies a new file channel-prefs.js. Updating Firefox never changes the update channel. Only a full install will do that.