Is there a reason you don't want Firefox to update? Firefox updates keep you safe online, disabling them is never suggested.

There is a reason. As I said in the original post, I don’t like morning surprises. Firefox almost always needs re-jiggering for a period of time when they update it.

I'd rather be ready without urgent work on my desktop that always requires dancing around in Firefox.

I am used to getting a notice of a new update with the offer to launch it when I want. To me, that's the way it should be. That's much safer to the work.

Your comments suggesting that somehow it's not safe to disable the automatic updating is a mystery to me. It has a marketing tint. All I'm asking is for a chance to do it when my workload isn't exposed to changes to the browser operation and functions. To me, that's infinitely safer that letting browser surgery happen mysteriously without warning.

So, the question still stands. Is there a way that I can do this update function manually as was previously the case and is still operative with other browsers?

How is asking users to update a marketing trick? Mozilla doesn't make money if you update, we don't charge for the updates to Firefox, in fact updates cost us money.

But it is true, we do want you to update. for many reasons. Updates help you and the web. They help you because they bring new security fixes and improvements, bug fixes, stability improvements, new features and support for modern web technology. They help the web because the fewer users on old, ancient versions that don't support new features, the faster web developers can innovate, making better products to serve to you.

So yes, we do want you to update.

Now, I don't think there is any rejiggering you have to do going from Firefox 29 to 30. Can you explain what happened?

Sorry, Marketing was a bad choice of words. Perhaps, “a narrow perspective” would have been a more accurate and less pejorative expression. I apologize.

What struck me about the reply was that it was totally Firefox-centric and not a user (this user’s) friendly push.

I know updating makes things safer and better and I always update. But, it’s the nurse coming into the hospital room at 3:00am to give you your medicine. I don’t need meds at that hour. It wakes me up. I lose sleep. I am being denied rest and sleep because the floor nurse is behind her meds rounds. That’s what is so irritating about being injected with an update without warning.

To be honest, I can’t recall all the little “re-jiggering” moments that occur, but they do occur. Usually, it’s its a feature that disappears from my customized theme that I require for my normal usage. I’ll lose things from the Toolbars that I previously installed and must relocate them again, usually right in the middle of a function. That’s distracting and irritating.

Just tell me that there is an update and I’ll make a little convenient time period of five minutes to perform the update.

It feels good when I perform the upgrade task. It feels somehow invasive when someone just shoves it up my browser when I’m not looking. Simple. Why is this so hard to understand?

It’s human, not technical.

Again, this question is still unanswered; Is there a way I can be notified of an update that I can perform at my own convenience?

--JP

You can go into Settings, under Advances, Update, then select "Check for updates, but let me choose to install them". Note that the faster you apply an update, the better.