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Disable "Checking Your Add-ons" When Launching Firefox

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Redhatcc
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Currently in our enterprize enviroment we have an older version of Firefox that we can not upgrade (long story).

When a user first launches Firefox, the first windows says "Checking Your Add-on's"

How can I get Firefox to not have this pop up?

Note: This is on a Citrix Provisioning Server, I have a default profile that when people launches Firefox all the certs etc gets loaded. Is there a way in the default profile to configure not to check Add-On's ?

Currently in our enterprize enviroment we have an older version of Firefox that we can not upgrade (long story). When a user first launches Firefox, the first windows says "Checking Your Add-on's" How can I get Firefox to not have this pop up? Note: This is on a Citrix Provisioning Server, I have a default profile that when people launches Firefox all the certs etc gets loaded. Is there a way in the default profile to configure not to check Add-On's ?

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finitarry
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There is a setting in the menu in the Addons window for "Update Addons Automatically". Make sure that it is not checked. You can also reset all addons to update manually.

cor-el
cor-el
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You could set lastVersion prefs to the value of that new Firefox version to prevent such a check. 

user_pref("extensions.lastAppVersion", "32.0");
user_pref("extensions.lastPlatformVersion", "32.0");

You could do that via user.js file in the defaults\pref folder in the Firefox program folder to initialize new profiles or via a mozilla.cfg file for all users (use pref() instead of user_pref()).

These functions can be used in the mozilla.cfg file: 

defaultPref();	// set new default value
pref();		// set pref, allow changes in current session
lockPref();	// lock pref, disallow changes

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