Why did firefox just update after I set manual updates and had been clicking download later?
This is really bad form.
My windows system crashed this morning. I have auto updates disabled. Seriously, Windows update service is disabled. Windows still installs them, anyway. One of the reasons I'm about to dump windows. permanently. I digress. Once I finally got into the system (windows is so slow to boot even on an 8 core machine) and started firefox, firefox gave a please wait, installing update.
For two weeks, I'd been clicking download later. I'm an IT professional. I want updates to happen when I want them to happen especially for spectre patches because they are not ready, yet. What happens if the firefox update is buggy and I want to roll the update back?
I really wanted to alert Mozilla directly, but there seems to be nowhere to do that. So here I am in a public forum asking WTF?
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Hi,
The people who answer questions here, for the most part, are other Firefox users volunteering their time (like me), not Mozilla employees or Firefox developers.
If you want to leave feedback for Firefox developers, you can go to the Firefox Help menu and select Submit Feedback... or use this link. Your feedback gets collected by a team of people who read it and gather data about the most common issues.
As to Microsoft, I think what they call critical updates will go thru whatever the settings.
Separate Security Issue: Update your Flash Player Note: Windows users should download the ActiveX for Internet Explorer. and the plugin for Plugin-based browsers (like Firefox).
Note: Windows 8 and Windows 10 have built-in flash players and Adobe will cause a conflict. Install the plugin only. Not the ActiveX.
Flash Player Version: Version 28.0.0.161
https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ Direct link scans current system and browser Note: Other software is offered in the download. <Windows Only>
https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/ Step 1: Select Operating System Step 2: Select A Version (Firefox, Win IE . . . .) Note: Other software is offered in the download. <Windows Only> +++++++++++++++++++ See if there are updates for your graphics drivers https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/upgrade-graphics-drivers-use-hardware-acceleration
cmaurand said
For two weeks, I'd been clicking download later.
"Check for updates but let you choose to install them" just doesn't work all the time due to the user missing the prompt all too often. 60 seconds is all you get to respond before Firefox defaults to going ahead and installing the update,
Just say no - Never check for updates (not recommended) is the ticket if you want to control when Firefox gets updated. And avoid using Help > About Mozilla Firefox - that will trigger a check for the availability of updates and then automatically install the update when one is available.