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Turning off update notifications

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Jeffery Small
Jeffery Small
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Firefox 101 Xubuntu 20.04

I want to completely disable the Firefox pop-up notifications regarding updates. I have searched the web for an answer and cannot find anything workable. Can you please tell me how to accomplish this as the constant nagging is extremely annoying.

In about:config I have the following set with no success:

app.update.auto false app.update.download.promptMaxAttempts 0 app.update.elevation.promptMaxAttempts 0 app.update.enabled false app.update.interval 31536000 app.update.promptWaitTime 31536000 app.update.silent true browser.search.update false update false

Firefox 101 Xubuntu 20.04 I want to completely disable the Firefox pop-up notifications regarding updates. I have searched the web for an answer and cannot find anything workable. Can you please tell me how to accomplish this as the constant nagging is extremely annoying. In '''about:config''' I have the following set with no success: app.update.auto false app.update.download.promptMaxAttempts 0 app.update.elevation.promptMaxAttempts 0 app.update.enabled false app.update.interval 31536000 app.update.promptWaitTime 31536000 app.update.silent true browser.search.update false update false

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Terry
Terry
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You may have to do that by locking preferences. Remove the blank space in the link below. My distro uses defaultPref rather than lockPref and I have these. 

defaultPref("app.update.auto", false);
defaultPref("app.update.enabled", false);
defaultPref("app.update.autoInstallEnabled", false);


http://kb.mozillazine. org/Locking_preferences