- HOW TO DISABLE ADD ONS FIREFOX INSTALL
- HOW TO DISABLE ADD ONS FIREFOX UPDATE
- HOW TO DISABLE ADD ONS FIREFOX ANDROID
- HOW TO DISABLE ADD ONS FIREFOX SOFTWARE
Thanks! It was always annoying to see addons updating and accessing internet on their own.
HOW TO DISABLE ADD ONS FIREFOX ANDROID
What you cannot do in Android (at least I could not figure it out either) to turn off updates only for one specific extension. You can disable auto-update of all extensions at once in Firefox Android by following the steps in the article above (about:config -> search for and switch true to false using the switch button). When going into tools, add-one, the is no’more’ setting and no gear icon.
HOW TO DISABLE ADD ONS FIREFOX UPDATE
I am using Firefox for Android and cannot turn off auto update of add-ons.
HOW TO DISABLE ADD ONS FIREFOX SOFTWARE
But on the other hand – if all people have all their software set to autoupdate then we have a monoculture which over night may fall into the wrong hands. And yes, I may well miss an important update. I wish there was an option to freeze the thing “as is” and stop it from executing ANY communication except the one that I type with my own hands. I would not recommend turning off automatic checking. by going to tools, addons, and click on the gear, and turn off automatic update. Or, as I did, you can leave then all on auto, and tell firefox to not automatically update any of the addons. Instead of turning off the checking of updates:Īs Hugo wrote, you can go to the addon and click on “more” next to the addon, and disable the automatic update. This way, one could have a proper housekeeping of FF. Further, the settings of each should be made explicit for import/export. And one should be able to set, again, individually, if upon unistall/disable the settings of each are purged. The best would be if one could set the update preference per addon/plugin (ie a button/option/check on each) whether an update is wanted and if not, it would not even be checked for updates.Īlso, all addons/plugins should have their files/settings in their own folder, not all over the place. I’ve tried this, but suspect it will not work as I don’t think Firefox would be updating spammy ad-ware programmes and what I really want is to be able to tell Firefox to PREVENT extensions from being added (at least without explicit permission). What does the option “default” mean regarding an addon automatic update? Does it mean on, off, or that a notice will be given that an update is available? I posted here one post and IT WAS DELETED!!! Why? Because Mozilla knows better!!! Why cant I control what and when will be updated?! It would be enough for me if the status of the checkbox were to be remembered.
HOW TO DISABLE ADD ONS FIREFOX INSTALL
I am afraid that I might install it by accident sometime when many updates are on the list… In particular I definitely do not wish to install the “Provider for Google Calendar” version 1.0.3 update – it does not work on my (German) system.ĭespite the fact that I clear the “In Update einschließen” checkbox, the update appears in the update list daily (with the checkbox set). I strongly support the request from Shorn. Here, you can set on/off/default.Ībout:addons ☑ Exclude from updates (Updates: … never) Visit:Ĭlick on the ‘more’ link at the end of the add-on description. Yep – should be available for each individual extension!!Īctually, you can set it individually for each add-on. In other words, I should be able to disable updates for a specific extension. I turned off auto-update, but I wish there was a FF setting tell me updates are available so I can choose when to update them/the update. I have it set to false and the addons keep updating.
By default, Firefox will check the Mozilla Add-ons Gallery for updates, but individual add-on developers may set their add-ons to check their own websites for updates if they are not hosted with Mozilla.Įach of these checks contains the same information that every web request does: your IP address, browser version, operating system, locale, etc. Firefox checks for new versions of your installed add-ons once per day, and at other designated times, such as when upgrading to a new version of Firefox.