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I have firefox 17 and it is upgrading to firefox 24.I don't want firefox 24 and i want firefox 17 only?what i want to do to disable the update.I used all option

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I don't want to upgrade my firefox version.I am using firefox 17 and it is automatically upgrading to firefox 24.I have used all options not to upgrade still iam facing the same issue.Is there any alternative for this.

I don't want to upgrade my firefox version.I am using firefox 17 and it is automatically upgrading to firefox 24.I have used all options not to upgrade still iam facing the same issue.Is there any alternative for this.

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Exactly which "options" to not upgrade have you used?

only user_pref("app.update.enabled", false); is needed

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Exactly where i need to do this.I checked never check for updates in tools-->options stills firefox is upgrading.

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Are you on the ESR update channel?

Do you have a check for updates button in Help > About?


If files already have been downloaded then remove the files in the updates and updates\0 folder. You can also delete the active-update.xml file.

Software Update not working properly:

C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox\updates
(%LOCALAPPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox\updates)
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The old 17.0 ESR is no longer supported as the last security update 17.0.11esr was released on November 15, 2013.

The currently supported ESR is 24.3.0esr which came out when Firefox 27.0 was released.