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Why Firefox launches Updater when starting Firefox if I have disabled all updates?

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svilponis
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How to permanently disable the updater? For now I have to shut it off every time I launch Firefox and UAC blocks this activity.

How to permanently disable the updater? For now I have to shut it off every time I launch Firefox and UAC blocks this activity.

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If files already have been downloaded then remove the files in the updates and updates\0 folder.

You can also delete active-update.xml and possibly updates.xml (stores the update history). 

C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox\updates
(%LOCALAPPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox)
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If files already have been downloaded then remove the files in the updates and updates\0 folder.

You can also delete active-update.xml and possibly updates.xml (stores the update history). 

C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox\updates
(%LOCALAPPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox)