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Firefox 17 releasedFirefox 17 releasedPosted Nov 21, 2012 1:54 UTC (Wed) by ewen (subscriber, #4772)In reply to: Firefox 17 released by dlang Parent article: Firefox 17 released
For values of "ignore these releases" which are equal to "click remind me again later" every day, for each frequently released auto-prompting bit of software.
You're right that people want bugfixes, decreased memory usage, etc. But they may or may not want the assortment of other changes that come bundled with them, plus potentially being forced to debug "$FOO changed, so now $BAR doesn't work with it any longer" type interactions on a regular basis. (The ESR style model, plus a rolling release, is arguably the solution to these two use cases. But at least for Mozilla the ESR version seems to be a "please don't run this version" release.)
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Firefox 17 released Posted Nov 21, 2012 7:44 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
taking a quick look in about:config (and doing no other research), it appears that there are probably several ways to disable the update
likely keys include
app.update.enabled
app.update.interval
app.update.mode (would need to look at the code to find what values other than '1' do)
app.update.url (if it's looking the wrong place for an upgrade, it won't find anything to upgrade to. you could even point this at a system you manage so that you get the benefits of auto-updating at the client, but on your schedule)
I would expect that a google search, or a search of the mozilla forums/lists would give you more concrete answers.
Personally, I run the Aurora version everywhere. It tries to update daily and I just ignore the suggestion until I feel like doing so.
Firefox 17 released Posted Nov 22, 2012 5:20 UTC (Thu) by cpeterso (guest, #305) [Link]
If you toggle the about:config pref app.update.silent, then Firefox will download updates but it won't pop up the annoying "Restart Now/Later" dialog. The next time you restart Firefox, it will be updated.
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