How I disabled Firefox's auto update

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How I disabled Firefox's auto update

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I've seen Firefox's annoying automatic update referenced several time in the forums. Older versions had a checkbox to disable it, but Mozilla, like many other software companies, has decided that they know what's best for their users. I personally find this offensive since my experience has been that updates often either fail to work at all or break other programs or functions.

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Here is a way to disable the auto update that works for me:

distribution.zip
unzip the file and put the "distribution" directory into your Firefox directory
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If you do want to do an update, just remove or rename the distribution directory.

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Re: How I disabled Firefox's auto update

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Thanks for posting this HERE.
Been using it for a while. Worth it.

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Re: How I disabled Firefox's auto update

Post by pp4mnklinux »

Thanks a lot.- I was looking for it a long time... I hate someone takes decissions for me, AND I HATE FF DOING THIS.

Have a nice day, my friend.- yw

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Re: How I disabled Firefox's auto update

Post by BologneChe »

Hi!

I have this in Firefox settings. Should it work I guess? This is the last version I installed under Tahrpup 64

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