[wpkg-users] HowTO prevent Autoupdate on Firefox / Thunderbird

[Hannes Gruber]

Ave Alex,

Look @ this:

     http://www.firefox-browser.de/wiki/Einstellungen_sch%C3%BCtzen

The settings I set are:

// update
lockPref("app.update.enabled", false);
lockPref("extensions.update.enabled", false);
lockPref("browser.search.update", false);
lockPref("app.update.auto", false);


I the created *.cfg file

I copy to   %ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\GUZMAN.cfg

change setings in %ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\pref\all.js

to:

pref("general.config.vendor","GUZMAN");
pref("general.config.filename","GUZMAN.cfg");


To test your settings with a plain text file add the following to all.js

pref("general.config.vendor","GUZMAN");
pref("general.config.filename","GUZMAN.txt");
pref("general.config.obscure_value",0);

then you can play around with the unencrypted

     %ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\GUZMAN.txt

UNtil you are happy. Firefox needs to be restarted every time you make a
change.

Use about:config to check your settings.

Hannes



Alexandros Gougousoudis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> how do you folks prevent the autoupdate feature from Firefox and 
> Thunderbird being running?
> 
> The problem here is, that these programs (at the moment Firefox) finds a 
> new version (2.0.0.2) of itself on the net and tries to install it. The 
> user has no admin-rights and the install fails everytime with an ugly 
> message.
> 
> The Autoupdate can be disabled in the menu, but I can't find the 
> corresponding softwareswitch.
> 
> I prefer to install the new versions over the wonderful wpkg service, 
> rather than giving admin-rights to the users... :-)
> 
> Please help.
> 
> TIA
>   Alex
> 
> 

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