Firefox said there is an update and needs to be restarted. Then mac pops up a box that says "firefox wants to install a new helper tool" and it wants the admin password.
I am new to mac and I am nervous to give the admin password to a window I don't fully understand. What is this message?
It happens if I click "Restart to update Firefox" in firefox. I would guess that it is a legit thing from firefox, but, I've never heard of a "helper tool" before. I would rather know what a helper tool is before I allow one to install.
Is there a way to see what app is responsible for the window? In console or something?
I'm a staunch Safari user (at least on my Mac) so my suggestion to you is delete the FireFox app, go to another browser and download a clean instance of the most recent version from Mozilla.org instead of allowing this one to update.
Ah, good idea, thanks. On my way to doing that though, I found out that if I update firefox while logged in as admin it doesn't throw up the "new helper tool" warning.
So I still don't know what a helper tool is, but the workaround solution to my problem is to update firefox from the admin account.
don't install anything you if you don't know exactly what it is and where it came from.
it could be a 3rd party crapware/malware attempt.
Did you get this going to a specific website?
firefox wants to install a new helper tool
