How to disable checking for Firefox add-on updates

Question

I am running Firefox (Linux) through the command line using cron-job. When there is no update for add-ons, it starts normally, then I can say what to do. However, if there is an update for the add-in, then he asks if this update should be accepted or not. I have no way to detect a popup and choose no.

So, how can I turn off all issues when starting Firefox?

Questions like:

• Do you want to update add-ons?
• Do you want to update Firefox?
• Do you want to open previous tabs or a new session?

I pretty much want to keep my version of Firefox as it is, and I have no questions.

When I launch Firefox, I would like it to start from scratch without any questions.

Answer 1

If the linux version is not at all different, in the settings> advanced> updates there are settings that you can disable related to the automatic search for updates for firefoxx and its add-ons.

In "about: config" you can set "Browser.sessionstore.enabled" to false, in which case firefox will not restore your tab state after the browsing session fails.

Answer 2

I went to about: config to find and disable all * .update.enabled

user_pref("app.update.enabled", false);, user_pref("browser.search.update", false); user_pref("extensions.update.enabled", false); 

Otherwise, it will cancel my Watir tests.

Answer 3

Depending on what functionality you need when starting FF, you may want to look at the safe mode switch when starting Firefox:

 /path/to/firefox -safe-mode 

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode

Answer 4

All these parameters should be in the standard application settings. From the command line, safe mode is what you want to learn.

Answer 5

Reset Firefox for the default settings from the help → Troubleshooting information, it will save your passwords, etc. and you will get a clean start, I just did it a few minutes ago and it really works. Do not check the addon update every time (by the way, I got this nasty thing when I turned on automatic update for firefox)