803205 - Can we avoid forcing/nagging the plug-in update front end?

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[AJ]

Attachment: 2012-10-18 Nagging Firefox plug-in checker.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)
Build ID: 20100722155716

Steps to reproduce:

Can we avoid forcing/nagging  the plug-in update/checking front end?


Actual results:

Whenever I open Firefox, I get this nagging and redundant request to update my plug-ins.
Incidentally I clicked on the top warning, went through the update process and it is still there.
I also checked the updates from within Firefox (not from this web page) and it reported that all my
plug-ins were up to date.


Expected results:

Because SnagIt has problems with higher versions of Firefox, I do not wish to update my Firefox and has turned off the auto update.  I do my updates manually.  Now, I have this unexpected new tab that turns on every time I open Firefox and cannot find how to turn of the "CHECKING for plug-in updates".

It tells me all kinds of answers on why, where, and how to turn off the plug-ins but no where can I find how to turn this sucker off.

It might might be a virus for all I know.  Look at the attached file for more info.
Cheers,
AJ

Comment 1

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Did you try updating Flash?

Comment 2

[Stefan Weiss [:sir_none]]

Hello,

I just found your bug report and want to ask you to give us more information.
first of all -> do you still have this problem on actual firefox?

if yes, can you try in safe mode?
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode

Comment 3

[Stefan Weiss [:sir_none]]

Closed, because of missing feedback from Reporter.

please feel free to reopen this bug report if you think it was closed wrong or you have new information to reproduce the problem.