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

[Michael Chinn]

You may also want to investigate the Firefox CCK
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/cck/firefox/

Currently using it in production. It  means you can publish updates to 
client configurations via an extension.
One major trap, if you want to use  an install.rdf/update.rdf you must 
use a GUID and not the new <extension>@your.site.com identifier in the 
files.
Something I also found interesting whilst using the CCK was that you can 
publish plugins through the users extensions.

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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Michael Chinn
User Support Officer - Information Technology

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
PO Box 1379
TOWNSVILLE, QLD 4810

Ph 07 47500874 Fax 07 4772 6093
michaelc at gbrmpa.gov.au 

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