Posted on 03/09/2014 5:31:26 PM PDT by ducttape45
I need to pick someone's brain on a Firefox question and on what happened to Michelle Malkin.
First, I can't keep Firefox from automatically updating. I have tried everything I can find on the Internet about ensuring Firefox doesn't automatically. I have version 24 and 25 and I don't want to update any further, but no matter what I try it still continues to do so.
I've told Firefox not to update under the Tools/Options/Advanced/Update tab. I deleted the Maintenance Service. I've gone into about:config and deleted the update URL. AND NOTHING WORKS!!!!!!
Anyone else out there got any ideas? I want to keep using it but I'm afraid I'll have little choice but to go to another browser. Mozilla is really slitting their collective throats with this.
Secondly, I've noticed that Michelle Malkin doesn't seem to be on Fox News anymore. Usually the email updates I get from her would have links to her appearances on Fox News. Since about last October those links are no longer in email alerts and the Youtube sight for Right Sightings no longer posts anything newer than Oct 2013.
Anyone know what happened to her? Did she go a tick off someone? I wonder if it had anything to do with the sudden hiring of Elizabeth Hasselhoff last year.
Thanks.
Sorry. That was clicko. :)
Michelle is a Fox.
So what is going on at Fox News, and Firefox, right?
Really, what version of FF are you on?
Exactly which updates are you concerned with ?
Oh, 24 and 25. I see, I’m not there yet.
Lemme look around...
Using the same route to the Update tab ...
Disable “Use a background service to install updates”
That is a feature of the Mozilla Maintenance Service:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Windows_Service_Silent_Update
I had the same problem.
For some reason, Firefox updated to the new version. I went in and told it not to.
Then I reloaded Firefox 25.
It did it again.
So, I turned UPDATE off again, and reloaded FIREFOX 25.
It did it again, and THEN I REALIZED that each time I installed FIREFOX 25 it was defaulting to AUTO UPDATE.
SO.... I removed FIREFOX, Reloaded version 25 and immediately went into the settings and changed it to NO UPDATE.
It’s been OK since.
I don’t know if your problem is exactly the same, but sometimes it’s the easy stuff we miss.
P.S. Sometimes stuff gets put into SCRIPT files which stay even if you RELOAD FIREFOX. The way to fix them is to go to HELP / TROUBLESHOOTING INFORMATION and click on the RESET FIREFOX button. This will make is just like a first time INSTALL of Firefox and eliminate any ‘junk’ you acquired that may be causing the problem.
< %SystemRoot%\system32\services.msc /s >
Check this BleepingComputer article for background info.
Then--make sure it's coming from Firefox?
I admit I haven't been diligent at that last portion, but I can stave off updating for months at a time, if so desired.
Use the Firefox ESR version. It only tells you to update once in a while (like six months), not every week. It’s the version for “groups who deploy and maintain the desktop environment in large organizations such as schools, governments and businesses...” It’s the version I use, someone on FR pointed it out and I’ll be grateful forever.
In any event, I think you need to reinstall Firefox because it shouldn’t be updating without your consent.
Oh noes! Fox Fired Michelle Malkin?!?
yep....
I don’t even have the maintenance service installed, and it still updates!
Every time I reinstall it, I go immediately to the update tab and turn it off, every time, yet it still updates. I've also heard to never click the Help/About Firefox tab because that will also auto update the software.
Now so far I have FF24 running and it hasn't updated, so I'm keeping my fingers and toes crossed (that's hard to do!).
I'm half tempted to do that. But I'm afraid of what might happen! Pretty sad huh..... D:
Perhaps Firefox Extended Support Release is what you want.
Link: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/
I did some searching around about your problem and discovered you are not alone. Plenty of others out there complaining about the same thing.
I hope not, but the sudden silence is telling. I’m hoping someone knows what happened.
You’re the 2nd person to suggest that. I’m gonna have to give it a look. Until Mozilla stops this nonsense it might be my only option.
Don’t browsers have to update to remain secure?
Doesn’t Microsoft have to update to remain secure?
Got it downloaded, gonna program it in tomorrow. I’m too tired from fighting with FF to do it tonight. Thanks for your help my friend.
It's the same thing with Microsoft Updates. I don't want Microsoft automatically updating my software. Consider the following:
1). If I allowed them to do that, I'd have a Bing desktop right now with a Bing toolbar in my web browsers. I don't want Bing software on my computer. Using the search engine is as far as I want to go with Bing.
2). I don't have IE11. If allowed Microsoft to install that automatically, I'd have to uninstall it because the Air Force Outlook Web Access Email system doesn't play well with IE11. So I have to stay with IE8 until someone in the government gets their act together and figures out how to make it work.
So as you can see from those two small examples, not all updates are beneficial. Overall, I WANT CONTROL OF MY COMPUTER, not some faceless individual or corporation. It's a choice, a preference.
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