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NotHappyCamper said

STOP with the auto-upgrade to the new FF or you risk losing me too! I will upgrade on MY schedule, not yours. Stop hassling me and many others with this ill-conceived scheme!

Probably a rhetorical question, but : have you checked the settings in the 3-bar menu (or 'Tools') => Options => General => scroll down to 'Firefox Updates'  ?

Another thing to do :

Type in the address bar about:config and press Enter (promise to be careful, if asked)

Type in the search bar app.update.auto and set its value to false Then close and restart Firefox.

Also see :

https://www.technipages.com/enable-disable-automatic-updates-in-firefox

(make sure to read the whole article)

'Hope this will make you a 'HappyCamper' instead of a
'NotHappyCamper' ......

NotHappyCamper said

I will upgrade on MY schedule, not yours.

So when were you planning to upgrade to current Firefox as you appear to be using a Firefox 56.0 version as 56.0.2 was Released back on October 26, 2017.

Note older versions do not have the security fixes that more current versions have, some of which are critical.

You are likely getting the message by way of Heartbeat. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/712991

I am aware of all of this. But since I employ some of the best defense against all of it, have had no security issues (yet), I still want to upgrade on my schedule, i.e. when I have time.

As I read about "app:update.auto" I find: "download and install updates automatically, possibly with a warning if incompatible extensions are installed (see app.update.mode)" and then "app.update.mode" both infer that both settings point to addons.

Find in Mozilla folders : Updater.exe and rename it Updater-old.exe

What you miss when you do not update :

• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/
• https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3023893/opera-mozilla-vivaldi-and-more-rush-to-patch-spectre-and-meltdown-security-holes

Happy Browsing.

See also Out of date message:

• 1. SKb/rate-your-firefox-experience-heartbeat