Firefox -- should "check for updates" be disabled?

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Sun Oct 17 16:49:59 UTC 2004


On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:25:08 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 00:45:48 -0400, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> > It's nice that Firefox has a built-in check-for-updates feature. But, I
> > think it should be disabled by default (or even patched out) on Fedora Core.
> newest firefox build in development should have this disabled.
> 
>  rpm -q --changelog firefox |head
> * Sat Oct 16 2004 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 0:0.10.1-1.0PR1.12
> 
> - Disable the default application checks. (#133713)
> - Disable the software update feature. (#136017)
> 
> * Wed Oct 13 2004 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard at redhat.com>
> 
> - Use pango for rendering

Could be that these changes only make it into newly created user
profiles.

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