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How do I disable automatic updates for Mozilla FireFox? How do I disable automatic updates for Microsoft Edge? How do I disable automatic updates for Google Chrome

Firefox for Windows

Method 1: Use a policy file

Official Policy template: github.com/mozilla/pol…

Create a policy file: <Firefox installation directory >\distribution\policies.json

As follows,

{
  "policies": {
    "DisableAppUpdate.": false}}Copy the code

Method 2: Use the registry

Operation steps:

  • Browse to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies” create item “Mozilla” after the create item “Firefox” is created “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Policies \ \ Mozilla Firefox”

  • In the preceding path, right-click the blank area and create a DWORD (32-bit) Value named DisableAppUpdate.

  • Double-click the created DisableAppUpdate to change the value to 1.

Use registry files directly

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox]
"DisableAppUpdate"=dword:00000001
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Use CMD directly (recommended, easiest)

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox" /v DisableAppUpdate /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
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Verify the effect of

“Firefox Update” is displayed in Options, indicating that the update has been disabled by the system administrator. The update button is also unavailable.

“Update has been disabled by the system administrator” is displayed in the About Firefox dialog box.

Reference article: www.webnots.com/how-to-disa…

Firefox for macOS

Method 1: Configure a policy file

To obtain the latest or corresponding policy template: github.com/mozilla/pol…

The automatic update policy is described as follows:

{
  "policies": {
    "DisableAppUpdate": true | false}}Copy the code

Create a Firefox policy profile

Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/distribution/policies.json

If automatic updates are disabled, the following content is written to the policies.json file

{
  "policies": {
    "DisableAppUpdate": true}}Copy the code

You can run the following command on the terminal:

mkdir /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/distribution

echo '
{
  "policies": {
    "DisableAppUpdate": true
  }
}
' > /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/distribution/policies.json
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Method 2: Use Plist to configure policies

. Configuration org. Mozilla firefox. Plist content is as follows:

  • Enable the strategy
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox EnterprisePoliciesEnabled -bool TRUE
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  • Disabling automatic updates
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox DisableAppUpdate -bool TRUE
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Verify the effect of

“Updates have been disabled by the system administrator” is displayed in Firefox Update in Preferences, and the update button is unavailable.

Firefox for Linux

On Linux, the file goes into firefox/distribution, where firefox is the installation directory for firefox, which varies by distribution or you can specify system-wide policy by placing the file in /etc/firefox/policies.

Write the policies.json file to the above path as follows:

{
  "policies": {
    "DisableAppUpdate": true}}Copy the code