1910186 - AutoUpdate policy does not work

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Enterprise Policies, defect)

Description

[Lutz Andersohn]

Attachment: policies.json

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0

Steps to reproduce:

I created a policy to turn AutoAppUpdate off.
I placed the policy into /etc/firefox/policies.json and for good measure into
/etc/firefox

under snap, I do not know where to put the local file (firefox/distribution)

Actual results:

firefox still auto-updates

Expected results:

it should n0ot update

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Enterprise Policies' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Ina Popescu, Desktop QA]

I've reproduced this issue using Firefox 128.0 on Windows10 x64 following the STR provided in Comment 0.
Setting to NEW and awaiting the developer's input on this.

Comment 3

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

We don't control whether or not the Snap updates via Firefox. You would have to turn that off in snap

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2022/11/turn-off-automatic-updates-snap-apps/

Comment 4

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:mkaply, could you have a look please?

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Comment 5

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Lutz, are you using the snap?

Comment 6

[Lutz Andersohn]

Standard install from xubuntu 22.04, so yes, i believe it is the snap

Comment 7

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Yeah, unfortunately we can't control that from inside Firefox. You would have to turn it off inside Ubuntu:

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2022/11/turn-off-automatic-updates-snap-apps/