635108 - We no longer support extensions.%ID%.update.enabled

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

We used to in Firefox 3.6, we have lost it by accident in the rewrite. Do we want it back?

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

So similar to extensions.update.enabled it wouldn't match the UI we have in the add-ons manager?

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> So similar to extensions.update.enabled it wouldn't match the UI we have in the
> add-ons manager?

There was never any UI for this setting.

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> There was never any UI for this setting.

So is this setting for completely disabling updates for that extension, even for the manual update case?

Comment 4

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

Yea, I'd imagine that would disable manual updates as well (and checking for updates). 

It seems pretty redundant - the UI now provides more control over updates, we no longer prompt for updates on startup, and developers can just not include an update URL if they want to not have it updated (er, and not list it on AMO). 

Only use I can think of beyond that is in an enterprise environment, to restrict users from upgrading a provided addon (eg, due to an outside dependency).