1430455 - Disable specific addon update

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 635108

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[supersonicsnow]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/63.0.3239.84 Chrome/63.0.3239.84 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Install Firefox 56.0.2
https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/56.0.2/linux-x86_64/en-ZA/firefox-56.0.2.tar.bz2

Install Greasemonkey 3.17
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/versions/?page=1#version-3.17

Made 2 new false boolean values in about:config
extensions.{e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781}.update.enabled
extensions.greasemonkey.update.enabled

Click "Check for updates" in addon manager



Actual results:

Firefox said it found an update for Greasemonkey, after restarting it updates to Greasemonkey 4.1


Expected results:

According to the Firefox documentation, Firefox should respect when you ask it to not update a specific addon.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Updating_extensions#Disabling_update_checks_for_individual_add-ons_-_Advanced_users