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Gerard
Gerard

Reputation: 9418

Prevent firefox from updating

I'm writing some python tests using selenium 2.25.0 and the Firefox webdriver.

I previously had Firefox version 16 (which worked just perfectly), but now it automatically updated itself to version 18, which is causing a lot of problems with my version of selenium and I want Firefox to prevent from updating if I haven't approved so.

I've found that the linux version of Firefox doesn't come with the option in Preferences > Advanced > Update tab to tell it to ask me what to do when a new version is available.

I've tried with selenium==2.26.0 and it kinda works for me locally, but unfortunately updating the version of selenium is no a suitable option since these tests have a while in production.

I already have Firefox 16 binaries and I need it to stay in such version.

Is there any way to accomplish this under Ubuntu 12.04?

Thanks in advance for any help? :)

P.D. I don't care for any add-ons incompatibility, I don't need them so it's ok that some add-ons are not available after solving this.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 2874

Answers (2)

NOCARRIER
NOCARRIER

Reputation: 2634

Here are more detailed instructions as more people are not experts in Firefox configuration.

  1. Open FireFox
  2. In the address bar, type about:config and press Return
  3. It will warn you, click I Accept the Risk
  4. Search for app.update.enabled in the search bar the pops up
  5. Double click it to flip the setting to false
  6. Do the same thing for app.update.auto

I can verify this works.

Upvotes: 0

mcassano
mcassano

Reputation: 506

Use about:config to set app.update.enabled and app.update.auto to False.

Upvotes: 12

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