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Vinod
Vinod

Reputation: 396

Stopping auto update of Mozilla Firefox

Our automation suite and application runs fine in FF 35, however it gets auto updated to latest version and our execution fails, we could not change all selenium jars and our application, is there a way to stop this auto update? Things tried: 1. Disabled auto update in options menu. 2. Toggled all update values to 'false' by going to "about:config"

And every time I try to uninstall latest version it forces me to restart the system

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2659

Answers (2)

Mahbub Rahman
Mahbub Rahman

Reputation: 1343

When installing Firefox, choose the customize radio button instead of default installation may be in 2nd or 3rd screen of the installation wizard and uncheck Mozilla/Firefox maintenance service. It will certainly work.

plus:

app.update.auto - false
app.update.enabled - false
app.update.silent - false

in firefox configuration

plus:

Disable auto update from: Tools->Options->Advanced->Update-> select never check for update

Good luck

Upvotes: 0

timbre timbre
timbre timbre

Reputation: 13985

I think the reason your solution did not work is because you updated your profile, rather than profile which is used when selenium tests are running. So what you need is either:

  1. Create a profile that will not update and use it statically with selenium (as explained here)
  2. Or, use a custom profile, for which you disable auto-update every time you start Firefox, (as explained here)

Upvotes: 3

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