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app.update.silent

Posted Nov 22, 2012 5:19 UTC (Thu) by cpeterso (guest, #305)
In reply to: Firefox 17 released by puffin
Parent article: Firefox 17 released

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.

Windows users automatically get silent updates from Firefox's updater background service.

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