Open Firefox & go to Tools/Options. As soon as you hit the Advanced tab, the empty folders "firefox\updates\0" are created in "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox" & then not removed on exit.
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Open Firefox & go to Tools/Options. As soon as you hit the Advanced tab, the empty folders "firefox\updates\0" are created in "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox" & then not removed on exit.
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This is fixed in Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 19.0.1.
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