Sorry for taking so long to provide you an update... I've been putting off commenting in this bug until after I was able to discuss changing this with the one of the people that would need to approve a change to the current behavior. It looks like we'll likely be able to make a couple of changes to make this less obnoxious but going back to just having a preference is very unlikely. The changes are by no means fully thought out or approved but there will likely be a pref that will lessen how often and / or how soon the notifications are displayed and there may be a new policy that would behave the same way as the old pref where it disabled the automatic update check. When I have more information I'll post it in this bug.
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Sorry for taking so long to provide an update... I've been putting off commenting in this bug until after I was able to discuss changing this with the one of the people that would need to approve a change to the current behavior. It looks like we'll likely be able to make a couple of changes to make this less obnoxious but going back to just having a preference is very unlikely. The changes are by no means fully thought out or approved but there will likely be a pref that will lessen how often and / or how soon the notifications are displayed and there may be a new policy that would behave the same way as the old pref where it disabled the automatic update check. When I have more information I'll post it in this bug.
Sorry for taking so long to provide an update... I've been putting off commenting in this bug until after I was able to discuss changing this with the one of the people that would need to approve a change to the current behavior. It looks like we'll likely be able to make a couple of changes to make this less obnoxious but going back to just having a preference that behaved the same way as the old preference is very unlikely. The changes are by no means fully thought out or approved but there will likely be a pref that will lessen how often and / or how soon the notifications are displayed and there may be a new policy that would behave the same way as the old pref where it disabled the automatic update check. When I have more information I'll post it in this bug.