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Tikihead
Making moves

getting constant upgrade spam from firefox.

I just upgraded to 127.  and now its telling me to upgrade to 128.

I cannot find a way to silence the notifications,

and I cannot find a way to import the bookmarks toolbar to waterfox.

it's annoying enuff for me to want to ditch firefox, even tho i love the browser.

thanx for listening.

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Agentvirtuel
Collaborator

Hello

Firefox release notes
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases
Since the release of Firefox 63 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/63.0/releasenotes


The option to Never check for updates was removed from about:preferences. You can use the DisableAppUpdate enterprise policy as a substitute.

Firefox policies https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates
DisableAppUpdate https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/#disableappupdate
The Enterprise Policy Generator https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/enterprise-policy-generator helps to create the configuration file

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

By way of other illustration https://www.youtube.com/embed/wiWZOm_UX30

Another way, not to block updates, or, to block updates
DisableAppUpdate 0 not to block updates
By way of illustration, DisableAppUpdate 1 block updates
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox1.png

Use the Troubleshooting Information page to help fix Firefox issues
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-troubleshooting-information-page-fix-firefox


Enterprise Policies: This shows you if your browser is being managed by Windows Group Policy or a policies.json file. If enterprise policies are managing Firefox, clicking on Active will show you a list of the policies that are currently active on

vik42
Making moves

Man I wish Google Chrome were as easy....

A simple way to kill the update notifications, if you don't have GPOs or anything fancy, say an air gapped network...

Generate this registry key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox]

DWORD 32 = DisableAppUpdate=1


Reboot... done, no more nags!

Agentvirtuel
Collaborator

Hello

In addition
Also works with HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox
https://www.youtube.com/embed/6ZMx-Da-0sM