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		rk06 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A look at Firefox forks Is there any fork which disables firefox's auto upgrade? I am not able disable it on Firefox or zen browser.

418tpot 11 months ago [–]

You can do this with vanilla Firefox using policies.json[1]. Check out `DisableAppUpdate` attribute.

If you're using Firefox from nixpkgs this is already disabled by default[2].

[1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-usi...

[2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.11/pkgs/appli...

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