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Can you tell me why Firefox's mozilla.cfg file keeps disabling in-app updates?

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jboese
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Firefox updates within the app keep disabling. Every once and awhile this happens and then we keep having to edit the mozilla.cfg and changing the following values: pref("app.update.auto", true); pref("app.update.enabled", true);

Is this from an update? What would be causing this file to be re-written to disable updates?

Thanks

Firefox updates within the app keep disabling. Every once and awhile this happens and then we keep having to edit the mozilla.cfg and changing the following values: pref("app.update.auto", true); pref("app.update.enabled", true); Is this from an update? What would be causing this file to be re-written to disable updates? Thanks

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guigs
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Hi jboese,

If we cannot find the right solution here, you might have some more luck with the ESR mailing list that work with enterprise environments and mike kaply is also a great resource.

ideato
ideato
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Hi, try to lock the preferences

// Enable updater lockPref("app.update.enabled", true); // make sure it is on lockPref("app.update.auto", true); lockPref("app.update.mode", 0); lockPref("app.update.service.enabled", true);

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locking_preferences


thank you