Why Firefox continue to try to be better when I'm updating?

I have (Firefox automatically) upgraded to the version: Firefox/3.6.13 about 10 days ago, but the FF continues automatically periodically (every two days?) Download the same update and install it, over and over again. He did about 3 or 4 times now. I use FF (or Mozilla) for about 10 years, and I've never seen that happen before. What is going on?

This article should help - updates reported when running newest version

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