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| tom66:
So... this is why we have massive bot-nets! People willingly disabling security updates. :palm: |
| Gyro:
--- Quote from: MrMobodies on October 14, 2023, 11:24:15 pm ---The last version in 2020 Firefox 80 I think had lots of popup messages (about the browser) with dimming overlays more than chrome (which hurts my eyes and p*ss me off) and I gave up on it because of the dimming overlays. I opened a thread on the Firefox forum explaining the issue and a suggestion but it got deleted. I still feel bitter about it. I wonder if it is someone's ego who decided they wanted it like that and don't want to hear the impact it has by constantly dimming the screen with dialogues and offer messages from Firefox. --- End quote --- Why don't you just switch to the Extended Support Release (ESR)? Then you only get security updates, not new features. |
| nctnico:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on October 15, 2023, 05:15:41 am --- --- Quote from: JeremyC on October 15, 2023, 12:15:22 am --- --- 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... --- End quote --- Use Linux. :-DD --- End quote --- It's not OS issue. Using Linux will not resolve OP's problem... he must disable auto updates... --- End quote --- There is no auto-update in Linux versions. --- End quote --- There certainly is. At least in version 114 (downloaded from Mozilla directly) which I'm using right now. But I have Firefox installed in a place where only root can write so it can't update / overwrite itself. Maybe packaged versions from Linux distributions have the updates disabled to make sure Firefox is updated throuhg the OS native update process. |
| joeqsmith:
--- 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 } } --- End quote --- Could you explain a little more how to do this> --- End quote --- |
| BrianHG:
--- Quote from: rdl on October 15, 2023, 08:40:15 am ---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. --- End quote --- Not exactly true. I'm using an old ESR with NoScript and even the latest updates slowed down my laptops loading of firefox 4 fold. It also eats 50% more ram when just viewing youtube videos and with my 4gb system, this means a bunch of low computer memory warnings and crashes. Warning: The latest firefox ESR update also triggers the youtube adblocker warning. Uninstalling and downgrading needs to now be done offline, otherwise, firefox auto-updates before your your first run, of by the second run. |
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