Comment 37 for bug 934887

(In reply to comment #34)
> > (comment #33) Admins can easily check %FIREFOX_HOME%/application.ini
> Not on machines which are maintained by the users themselves (laptops, etc.),
> that's the stated use case where a direct access isn't readily available.

Your model assumes that users who are their own admins both 1) turn off Firefox's built-in update notification and 2) still update in response of an intranet page yelling at them (by detecting the patch level from the UA string). Seems like an edge case not worth catering for.