1590727 - regression bug: disable check for updates disappeared

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1477314

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[w.pasman]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0

Steps to reproduce:

Steps to reproduce:

Mac Mojave
Firefox 69.0.3 (64-bit)

Go to prefernces and search for "update".
Look under "Allow firefox to"

Actual results:

Options:

• Authomatically install updates (recommended)
• Check for updates, but let you choose whether to install them
• Automatically update search engines

Expected results:

I was also expecting the option

• Never check for updates

The third option was there before so this is a regression bug.

This is also a problem in Thunderbird which also uses this. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590668

This causes a problem: you now get an annoying reminder, which requires you time and time again to confirm that you know there is an update but do not want it installed.

The recommended "fix" is very complex. Users have to figure out a number of weird steps steps like https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/managing-policies-osx-desktops and search the "Alterivate Solution" from https://winaero.com/blog/disable-updates-firefox-63-above/ The exact procedure also depends on the architecture, application etc. So even if you figure it out, this procedure is for firefox and you still need to figure how to do it in thunderbird.