Remove automatic updates & update notifications from Linux builds.

[SkMyPP]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Since package managers are thing on Linux, automatic updates & updates notifications are useless since everything is handled with each distro's corresponding package manager. Having no way to remove update notifications leads to annoying notifications like this one.

Describe the solution you'd like Read the feature request title.

Describe alternatives you've considered Using Librewolf.

Additional context I've already opened a feature request (#2581) regarding this issue. The wording on this new feature request should be better.

[hawkeye116477]

no way to remove update notifications

It's possible to do that, only configuration file is needed, see https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/README.md.

[rodrigomessias]

I use Waterfox in "portable" mode (.tar.gz package) on Linux and absolutely rely on the automatic updates to keep me up to date.

Please, don't remove this feature.

[adamp01]

I am going to re-implement app.update.enabled functionality so that you can turn it off with a pref.

We are not removing automatic updates from the builds that we distribute (tarball for Linux).

[ghost]

I guess I worded what I meant to say completely wrong (again...)

I didn't mean to say "remove all options to completely disable automatic updates in the browser", but instead bring back the option to completely turn off updates like this.

I don't get why browsers keep removing the option to automatically update. It doesn't have to be on by default but at least bring back the option to let people decide if they wanna automatically update or not. Having a little disclaimer like the one in the image that lets users know that turning off updates is a potential security risk is perfectly fine.

But having the option to remove those annoying update prompts would suffice.

[adamp01]

What you are requesting is what I am attempting to re-implement now, your wording was all good.

[ghost]

Ah, ok.

Again, it was never my intention to ask for automatic updates to be completely removed. Just having the option to turn off automatic updates is enough.

Thanks.

[Darin755]

Is there any plans to release waterfox as a rpm/deb package?