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How to permanently disable FireFox updating...
BrianHG:
Here, I've attached a .zip of 2 reg files which will allow you to turn on and off firefox's updates.
Just double click on the reg file you want and click yes/yes.
If you do not trust me, you can inspect the reg files with any text editor and see it matches the reg settings I quoted in my opening post.
In the .zip, you have these 2 files:
FireFox_updates_off.reg
FireFox_updates_on.reg
SiliconWizard:
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--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on October 14, 2023, 08:18:41 pm ---
--- Quote from: tridac on October 14, 2023, 10:08:09 am ---Thanks, will give that a try. Problem is that later verisions of FF no longer have the ability to disable updates, which is why i'm still on 114.0.2. That does keep nannying with an update box, top right, several times a day, but at least it can be ignored. Would be good to get rid of that as well...
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Use Linux. :-DD
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It's not OS issue. Using Linux will not resolve OP's problem... he must disable auto updates...
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There is no auto-update in Linux versions.
mwb1100:
--- Quote from: The Electrician on October 14, 2023, 05:21:42 am ---
--- Quote from: joeqsmith on October 14, 2023, 03:19:02 am ---Mozilla Firefox/distribution/policies.json
{
"policies": {
"DisableAppUpdate": true
}
}
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Could you explain a little more how to do this>
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See:
- Firefox policy-templates
That page also documents the registry settings in @BrianHG's original post. There are at least two advantages to the policies.json file:
1. it's easier to backup/restore
2. it's cross platform (of course, that doesn't matter if you're running only Windows)
rdl:
I'm pretty sure auto updates are possible, since they're disabled.
rdl:
It's kind of ridiculous but probably 80% or more of the updates that come through the package manger are Firefox updates. I hardly use it anymore because it won't keep running. It constantly wants to be restarted and the way I do things that gets to be annoying.
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