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StuartMW
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Re: Firefox dishonesty

said by dave:

I did not knowingly have the maintenance service installed, but if it came by default at some version, I could have missed it.

I don't think I have the service installed either. Double checking right now.

Look at

maintenanceservice_installer.exe
maintenanceservice.exe

in your

Mozilla Firefox folder.

What is the Mozilla Maintenance Service?
dave
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join:2000-05-04
not in ohio

dave

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I found another Firefox 28 system to play with.

For options, I had "check for updates but let me choose" checked.
I did not have "use background service" checked.
The maintenance service was installed with "manual" start.
I changed it to "disabled".

The Help-About dialogue showed "Check for updates" on the button.
I clicked it, it immediately started downloading the update.
After downloading, the button changed to "Restart to install" with no visible way to tell it not to install anything.

StuartMW
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StuartMW

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said by dave:

After downloading, the button changed to "Restart to install" with no visible way to tell it not to install anything.

Sounds like a bug or just Mozilla telling you that "you can have any version of Firefox you want as long as it's the latest".

I update manually--that is do a "check for updates" when I know one is available.

I've disabled auto-updates for all software I use. I also uninstall any services they've installed. Sometimes I forget to check after updating something. Some programs have a nasty habit of re-installing stuff I've disabled.

plencnerb
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plencnerb

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I manually update as well. And by manually, I actually manually check the specific webpage to see if an update is available. In the thread that darcilicious See Profile references, I explain in more detail about my manual update process.

Like you, I disable all automatic update items for the software that I use. I also have to go back when I do manually update something to make sure that the software did not add some kind of new automatic update process, or if the automatic update process that I had disabled is now enabled again.

Its a bit more work that's for sure, but at least I know when updates will be installed, and I don't get a surprise if I suddenly have a new version of something.

I would rather look myself at the actual webpage, or read about an update on here then for the software to check for, and automatically download updates.

--Brian

Davesnothere
Change is NOT Necessarily Progress
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Canada

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Davesnothere

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said by plencnerb:

I manually update as well.

And by manually, I actually manually check the specific webpage to see if an update is available. In the thread that darcilicious See Profile references, I explain in more detail about my manual update process.

Like you, I disable all automatic update items for the software that I use.

I also have to go back when I do manually update something to make sure that the software did not add some kind of new automatic update process, or if the automatic update process that I had disabled is now enabled again....

 
Generally, I get the new offline installer for FF and overwrite my current install, and ONLY AFTER backing up my FF profile folder.

And JAVA can be an ornery one to tame.

I have had limited success with the normally prescribed methods of asking tasks politely not to start, so....

To stop it looking for updates, what I usually do is go to Program Files > Common Files > Java > Java Updates , and rename all of the executables in there, and similarly also I rename jqs.exe in the Program Files > Java > JRE7 > Bin folder, so that it will not load part of JAVA when Windows starts up, and will be civilized until I actually reach a web page which NEEDS Java.