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I give up trying to fight the automatic updates.

Submitted by solanus on November 7, 2009 - 1:51am

I know that there's some nitpicky legal reason that John can't turn off automatic updates, that's fine.
But (and this has happened to me before) Firefox just auto-updated itself to 3.5.5.
I looked at my settings, and I ALWAYS set my Tools>Options>Advanced>Update so that updating Firefox is UNchecked.
It's just that Firefox apparently doesn't care, it still autoupdates.

So I give up trying to fight it. I'm not re-installing FFP to fix any potential problems from the automatic update.

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AFAIK

Steve Lamerton (Homepage) - November 7, 2009 - 5:14am

there is no issue with automatic updates at the moment and there hasnt been for some time, the guidance needs updating.

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Oh is there some other setting that I don't now about?

solanus - November 7, 2009 - 11:53am

Because if there is, I'd like to know.
Seriously.

What I'd like even more would be for the autoupdate to grab the PA version instead, but that's never going to happen.

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Try about:config

digitxp - November 7, 2009 - 10:36pm

it oughtta be there somewhere...

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I was

Steve Lamerton (Homepage) - November 8, 2009 - 4:46am

meaning these comments: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406335#c32 that say the auto updater hasn't caused any damage for quite a long time now.

'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK

3.7?

Chris Morgan (Homepage) - November 8, 2009 - 4:05am

My recollection of the issue was that it had been fixed in the 3.7 (or possibly 3.6) development branch but would not make it back to 3.0 or 3.5; I may have that wrong though.

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Update problem non-existant?

don gilcrease - November 18, 2009 - 12:28am

Duh! There absolutely is an update problem, no matter what Portable Apps people think. I have the problem too - it updates even though the update options have always been unchecked, and just made a post about it.

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having nothing to do with good or bad,
acceptance or rejection,
one may well burst out in laughter.
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