04-07-2025 11:01 AM
What in the world is going on with Mozilla?? This is the third time this year that Mozilla has updated something without my consent. Both Firefox and Thunderbird are set to let me decide to update, and Mozilla just updates it anyway. Twice on Firefox (one just a few minutes ago) and another on Thunderbird.
Mozilla, you are rapidly pushing me off as a customer!
04-07-2025 09:57 PM - edited 04-07-2025 10:41 PM
Hello
About, DisableAppUpdate, for information purposes.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/upgrade-notification-spam/m-p/64080/highlight/true#M22529
The Enterprise Policy Generator https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/enterprise-policy-generator helps to create the configuration file.
Prevent Firefox from updating
{
"policies": {
"DisableAppUpdate": true
}
}
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1509058#answer-1729483
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/fonts-formatting-and-the-never-ending-updating/m-p/95117/... by way of illustration.
Take a look at https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/option-to-disable-update-reminders/idc-p/46382/highlight/true#M...
Customizing Thunderbird using policies.json
https://enterprise.thunderbird.net/manage-updates-policies-and-customization/managing-thunderbird-po...
DisableAppUpdate https://thunderbird.github.io/policy-templates/templates/release/#disableappupdate
By way of illustration https://forums.mozfr.org/viewtopic.php?p=947137
{
"policies": {
"DisableAppUpdate": true
}
}
For example and clarification.
Dedicated profile per Thunderbird installation
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dedicated-profile-thunderbird-installation
Some users have multiple program installations of Thunderbird on the same computer; for example, Thunderbird 38, Thunderbird 45, Thunderbird 52 and Thunderbird 60, each installed in a separate program folder. In these older Thunderbird installations it was allowed to share the same profile by default.
However, with version 68 and newer versions a dedicated profile is used for each program installation of Thunderbird (including Nightly and Beta). This makes Thunderbird more stable when switching between installations on the same computer, and also allows you to run different installations of Thunderbird at the same time.