![]() New products, new technologies, scientific discoveries, great works of art, great buildings have always been made by the exceptional 1% aiming to statisfy their ambitions - and the ambitions of similarly exceptional people. I realise this is a very politically incorrect thing to say, however it’s true. If human endeavours become limited to what suits the greater masses, then we’ll loose civilisation pronto, because the greater masses are not that very bright. This worldview stems from the law of the majority being overstretched beyond the political realm. Additionally, Mozilla notes, that browser usage has been in decline and support has been dropped by Frank Meier Mozilla discovered that the vast majority of Internet users, 99.99% according to the organization, don’t use Firefox’s update control functionality at all. Continuing to allow user control of updates would “cost significant time and effortâ€, and current usage of “the browser doesn’t justify such an investmentâ€.Īllowing users to control updating is not “offering features Mozilla wants†according to Mozilla. The organization discovered that user control of updates “had an outsized maintenance and security impact relative to its usageâ€. Mozilla analyzed usage of the functionality, the technical implementation and state, maintenance costs, and state of traditional updating of the app. €œAfter careful consideration of various options (which also included doing nothing, or investing heavily in updating the code), we’ve decided to go ahead and remove user control of update installation from Firefox.†![]() Now You: How do you handle updates in Firefox? (via Deskmodder / Sören Hentzschel) While it is more difficult to block update checking entirely in Firefox, an option to do so still exists even in Firefox 63 and future versions released after Firefox 63. Yes, it would be great if all users would run the latest version of Firefox but users have multiple reasons for not wanting to update. While it is generally not recommended to disable the installation of updates, it should be up to the user to make that decision in my opinion. You need to update Firefox manually after making the change, or revert the change by disabling the new value in the Registry. ![]() Right-click on Firefox and select New > Dword (32-bit) Value.If any of the keys do not exist create them with a right-click on the previous key and the selection of New > Key.Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox.Confirm the UAC prompt that may be displayed.Type regedit.exe and select the result.The Registry optionįirefox users may also make changes to the Windows Registry if they use Windows to disable automatic updates. The add-on creates a policy file that you need to place in the distribution folder of the Firefox installation.Īdditional information about policy support is available here. The policy requires Firefox ESR 60 or higher, or Firefox 62 or higher. Locate Updates
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