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Disable Windows updater BITS

Open remusao opened this issue 5 years ago • 3 comments

browser/app/profile/firefox.js https://github.com/cliqz-oss/browser-f/blob/master/mozilla-release/browser/app/profile/firefox.js#L169

// If set to true, the Update Service will attempt to use Windows BITS to
// download updates and will fallback to downloading internally if that fails.
// download updates and will fallback to downloading internally if that fails.
// pref("app.update.BITS.enabled", true);
// Cliqz. This looks very experimental, especially a used languages and
// libraries (XPCOM-C++-rust chain). Need to check how winapi-rs really works,
// I didn't find any popular service or project which use it.
// pref("app.update.BITS.enabled", false);

remusao avatar Sep 11 '20 13:09 remusao

Guess that's a simpla call to make, let's disable for now.

chrmod avatar Sep 15 '20 07:09 chrmod

Looks like we currently have this disabled implicitly as we don't set MOZ_BITS_DOWNLOAD. Do we need to add this explicit disable?

sammacbeth avatar Sep 23 '20 10:09 sammacbeth

I don't think we have to touch it now. Moving to backlog

chrmod avatar Sep 24 '20 09:09 chrmod