Firefox question

[Bruinator]

Hi,

 

I use firefox 56 instead of the newer version. Under the option allow firefox to, I selected the option to Never check for updates only. For some reason, it still is updating to the latest version and I dont want it to. I dont know if Kaspersky IS is cozing it or what. IS there a way to prevent it from updating?

 

TIA

[Nick H. Supervisor]

8 hours ago, Bruinator said:

TIA

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[GrayW]

This has been an intermittent bug for quite a while. Sometimes disabling it works, sometimes it doesn't. You could always try editing the prefs.js file manually.

 

As another option, have you considered using the ESR version? It might be a more suitable option if you only need security patches: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/

[erpster3]

the Never check for updates option has been removed starting with Firefox 63 so the only way to disable firefox browser updates from FF63 and beyond is by creating a policy file (policies.json) that has the following:

 

{
  "policies": {
    "DisableAppUpdate": true
  }
}

 

this policies.json file has to be placed in the distribution folder of the main Firefox program directory [ex. c:\program files\mozilla firefox\distribution\] for Firefox versions 63 & greater to stop auto updating.

 

and note that the policies.json file gets removed whenever FF63 is being upgraded to a newer version, so the json file and the distribution folder has to be created again to block updates.