Prevent your Firefox from auto-updating

Updated . Posted . Visible to the public.

Note that if you plan to freeze your Firefox versions because your Selenium tests break whenever Firefox updates, there is a better way that lets you keep an up-to-date Firefox. Mozilla has stated that they will no longer provide security patches for any but the most recent versions of Firefox. So running an old Firefox should not be a long-term solution for anything.

If you still wish to disable the auto-update in Firefox, a poster in this thread Show archive.org snapshot recommends bringing up about:config and setting the following to keys to false:

app.update.auto
app.update.autoUpdateEnabled
Profile picture of Henning Koch
Henning Koch
Last edit
License
Source code in this card is licensed under the MIT License.
Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2011-08-22 18:56)